Just in from an AP report:

An independent British report into the leak of hundreds of emails from
one of the world’s leading climate research centres has largely
vindicated the scientists involved, a finding many in the field hope
will calm the global uproar dubbed “Climategate.”

Read full story here

Image:Dr. Compton Tucker, senior Earth scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center in the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, discusses
"Climategate" in the context of observations of the
ocean-land-atmosphere system. This observation shows unambiguous
increasing surface temperatures and stress the contribution of space
observations that should extinguish the climate change controversy.





Credit: NASA/GSFC/Bill Hrybyk

Where would you like your pension money to be invested in?

According to the Financial Post, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced it was making a $250-million private placement in Laricina Energy Ltd, a Calgary-based
company that has a portfolio of oil sands assets that range from
properties in the McMurray formation as well as sites near Grand Rapids
and Grosmont. With this investment CPPIB now owns a 17.1% equity
interest in the company.

The oil sands are definitely a divisive issue both here in Canada and abroad. I wonder how ordinary Canadians would feel about these funds possibly being placed in a company that they might not agree with…

Image from GoodNCrazy