Obama endorsed UN Climate Report used student and climbing magazine, Obama accepted as basis to punish and tax US

• This is not about the environment. It is obviously about organized crime. When will Obama apologize to the American people and renounce any plan to regulate carbon? And drop the joke that it's about 'national security'? If he wants to publicly scold and threaten the Supreme Court about something, why not their 5-4 decision on CO2?
  

"In its (the UN IPCC's) most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in

• the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.

• The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

The revelations, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph, have raised fresh questions about the quality of the information contained in the report, which was published in 2007."...

• "UN Climate Change Panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article," UK Telegraph, 1/30/10, by Richard Gray. via Tom Nelson