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The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write. No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former...

Calling it a tool of Bush-administration plans to attack Tehran, leftist activists say they might target WND Books' upcoming release "Atomic Iran" with a picket or boycott of the Nashville publisher partnered with WorldNetDaily on the project. A group based in the Music City called Citizens for a Democratic Media claims Cumberland House Publishing, WorldNetDaily's partner on WND Books, is "part of the new PR campaign to sabotage our democratic process." "The attempts to control public opinion through right-wing media bias need to be confronted," says Anna Thompson, a leader of the activist group.