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Attorney General of Ontario Signed Statement of Intent with United Nations
John Gerretsen, Attorney General of Ontario, signed this letter of intent while he was of Minister of the Environment for the Province of Ontario. I’ll let you decide if this is a case of Treason. Personally, I think the letter speaks for itself.
STATEMENT OF INTENT
Between the United Nations Development Programme and
Province of Ontario
This Statement of Intent is concluded between the United Nations Development Programme (“UNDP”), a subsidiary organ of the United Nations, an intergovernmental organization established by its Member States, and the Province of Ontario (hereinafter referred to as “Ontario”). UNDP and Ontario are hereinafter referred to as the “Parties”.
UNDP serves in many respects as the operational arm of the United Nations at the country level and works with partners in numerous countries to promote sustainable development, eradication of poverty, advancement of women, good governance and the rule of law.
UNDP, represented by the Bureau for Development Policy, is interested in enhancing its development activities in climate change at the sub-national level.
Ontario is taking measurable steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build an innovative, prosperous and sustainable low-carbon economy. Ontario has introduced comprehensive new climate change initiatives — among the most ambitious and forward-looking of any jurisdiction in North America. These include: a phase-out of coal-fired electricity, promotion of renewable energy and conservation, an aggressive innovation agenda to support research and development in green technologies, historic investments in transit projects and energy efficient infrastructure that are creating thousands of new jobs, and work on climate change adaptation.
The Parties wish to cooperate in areas of mutual concern to enhance the effectiveness of their development efforts, in particular with respect to reducing the negative impacts of climate change. The Parties recognize that climate change will require an unprecedented level of collaboration and cooperation among all levels of government around the world, and that to solve climate change, regional governments, including federated states and provinces, must incorporate the global dimension into their existing strategies and actions.
Ontario has expressed its commitments to tackling climate change at the sub-national level and wishes to work with UNDP in carrying out projects in the framework of the Territorial Approach to Climate Change program to assist sub-national governments in developing countries to implement low carbon development strategies.
On the occasion of the Global Leaders Summit on 15th December 2009, UNDP and Ontario agree to work together to address climate change.
The Parties will explore possibilities to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding in order to establish their partnership in this program.
The Parties recognize that this statement is strictly limited to the scope described herein above and does not entail any further commitments on either Party.
Done at Copenhagen, on 15th December 2009
For UNDP
Olav Kjørven
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations
Director Bureau for Development Policy
United Nations Development Programme
For Ontario
John Gerretsen
Minister of the Environment
Province of Ontario
Canada
Spider Halts Highway Project in Texas
Re-posted from johnconner1984
A highway project in San Antonio has been halted because of a rare spider considered to be endangered. An environmental consultant made the discovery.
This is just another example of UN Agenda 21 in action. It reminds me of the man made drought due to a supposedly rare 2″ smelt fish that destroyed orchards in California. It also reminds me of the spotted owl sighting that shut down water to a town in Tombstone Arizona.
When will people realize this environmentalism is being used in a authoritarian manner to restrict your resources , right to travel , and property rights.
The UN and the hundreds of NGO tentacles are constantly ramming this type of nonsense down our throat. It is time to end this Sustainability Mafia Crime Syndicate that has infiltrated town and city councils around the world. The sustainability crime syndicate has also infiltrated Federal , State , and Provincial governments around the world.
They have infiltrated our schools to indoctrinate the youth, which is why I have no sympathy for the recent striking teachers for they are partaking in child abuse and have turned the schools into UN sustainable indoctrination facilities.
The Sustainability crime family has hijacked the main stream and alternative media. They are involved in scamming and controlling various industries though safety and environmental regulations such as construction, manufacturing, mining, transportation, agriculture, electricity , petroleum, and many more.
Jessica Annis Urban Planner Speaks Out on Canada Live
Jessica Annis, Operation Pushback Canada, joins Ron and John on Canada Live to discuss land/water and environmental planning in Ontario The discussion spans the subjects of Private Property Rights, Water, Land Use and Agenda 21.
Jessica Lauren Annis, BURPl, MCIP, RPP
Jessica Lauren Annis, founder of Operation Pushback, has a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning with Honours from Ryerson University, where she earned a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.05. Jessica is a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and is a Registered Professional Planner in Ontario.
Jessica is familiar with the resulting economic harm that is being inflicted on the competitive, productive class in general and the disproportionate regulatory burden being imposed on individuals and SMEs in particular.
Jessica understands the “big picture” and has decided to speak out. http://www.operationpushback.ca
Stephen Harper Rio +20
Stephen Harper with face paint on showing his support for the globalist agenda.
I know the World Leaders/Traitors want to put their best face forward as they attempt to usher in world tyranny….So… if you’ve got an idea for face paint Harper or your favorite Leader/Traitor might wear? Send it and I’ll post it.
Traitor-”One who betrays one’s country, a cause, or a trust”
Why Our Winters Are Getting Warmer…it’s not because of You or CO2
Editor:
David Suzuki and many in the environmental movement say Rachel Carson‘s book, Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a turning point in their lives. Silent Spring warns of environmental damage caused by chemical spraying and the use of DDT.
Carson explores the causes of Climate Change in an earlier book called, The Sea Around Us, a book I’ve never heard an environmentalist endorse or acknowledge. Carson lays out a much more plausible explanation for Global Warming/Climate Change than the IPCC. The earth has always warmed and cooled via the natural cycle, but the environmental movement is determined to blame man, as in “Man Made Global Warming.” Why do you think that is?
The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
- Club of Rome,
The First Global Revolution,
consultants to the UN.
Why Our Winters Are Getting Warmer
By Rachel Carson
From the book, The Sea Around Us.
Copyright 1950, 1951, by Rachel Carson.
Reprinted by permission of Oxford- University Press, Inc.
The old-timers are right–winters aren’t what they were. And the reason may be gigantic tides deep under the sea that apparently change the climate of the whole earth.
The ocean comes alive in one of this year’s most fascinating books. This article is condensed from The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson. A lilelong student of nature, Miss Carson is editor-in-chief of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.Day by day and season by season, the ocean dominates the world’s climate. Can it also be an agent in bringing about the long-period swings of climatic change that we know have occurred throughout the long history of the earth-the alternating periods of heat and cold, of drought and flood? There is a fascinating theory that it can.
This theory links events in the deep, hidden places of the ocean with the cyclic changes of elimate and their effects on human history. It was developed by the distinguished Swedish oceanographer, Otto Pettersson, whose almost century-long life closed in 1941.To review the Pettersson theory is to review also a pageant of human history, of men and nations in the control of elemental forces whose nature they never understood and whose very existence they never recognized.Pettersson’s work was perhaps a natural outcome of the circumstances of his life. He was born-as he died 93 years later-on the shores of the Baltic, a sea of complex and wonderful hydrography. In his laboratory atop a sheer cliff overlooking the deep waters of the Gulmarfiord, instruments recorded strange phenomena in the depths of this gateway to the Baltic. As the ocean water presses in toward that inland sea it dips down and lets the fresh surface water roll out above it; and at that deep level where salt and fresh water come into contact there is a sharp layer of discontinuity, like the surface film between water and air.The Atlantic is slowly rising, and there’s enough water frozen in land ice to raise it 100 feet. If ALL that ice were to melt, which is unlikely, New York would be flooded as shown on the left.
Giant Waves Under the Sea
Each day Pettersson’s instruments revealed a strong, pulsing movement of that deep layer – the pressing inward of great submarine waves, of moving mountains of water. The movement was strongest every twelfth hour of the day, and between the 12-hour intervals it subsided. Pettersson soon established a link between these submarine waves and the daily tides. “Moon waves,” he called them, and as he measured their height and timed their pulsing beat through the months and years, their relation to the ever-changing cycles of the tides became crystal clear.
He had found that the submarine waves varied in height and power as the tide – producing power of the moon and sun varied. From astronomical calculations he learned that the tides must have been at their greatest strength during the closing centuries of the Middle Ages – those centuries when the Baltic herring fishery was flourishing. Then sun, moon and earth came into such a position at the time of the winter solstice that they exerted the greatest possible attracting force upon the sea. Only about every 18 centuries do the heavenly ‘bodies assume this particular relation. But in that period of the Middle Ages, the great underwater waves pressed with unusual force into the narrow passages to the Baltic, and with the “water mountains” went the herring shoals. Later, when the tides became weaker, the herring remained outside the Baltic, in the North Sea.
Then Pettersson realized another fact of extreme significance – that those centuries of great tides had been a period of “startling and unusual occurrences” in the world of nature. Polar ice blocked much of the North Atlantic. The coasts of the North Sea and the Baltic were laid waste by violent storm floods. The winters were of “unexampled severity” and in consequence of the climatic rigors political and economic catastrophes occurred all over the populated regions of the earth. Could there be a connection between these events and those moving mountains of unseen water? Could the deep tides affect the lives of men as well as of herring?
Tides Affect Climate
Marshaling scientific, historic and literary evidence, he showed that there are alternating periods of mild and severe climates which correspond to the long-period cycles of the oceanic tides. The world’s most recent period of maximum tides, and most rigorous climate, occurred about 1488, its effect being felt, however, for several centuries before and after that year. The minimum tidal effect prevailed about A.D. 550, and it will occur again about the year 2400.Surface waves are mild compared to great submarine waves found at mouth of Baltic where salt water meets fresh. Such tide waves are thought to explain long-range climate changes.During the latest period of benevolent climate, snow and ice were little known on the coast of Europe and in the seas about Iceland and Greenland. Then the Vikings sailed freely over northern seas, monks went back and forth between Ireland and “Thyle” or Iceland, and there was easy intercourse between Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries.
Storms and Floods Wreak Havoc
But these bland climatic conditions began to deteriorate in the thirteenth century. The seacoast of Holland was devastated by storm floods. Old Icelandic records say that, in the winters of the early 1300′s, packs of wolves crossed on the ice from Norway to Denmark. The entire Baltic froze over, forming a bridge of solid ice between Sweden and the Danish islands. Pedestrians and carriages crossed the frozen sea and hostelries were put up on the ice to accommodate them. The freezing of the Baltic seems to have shifted the course of storms originating in the low-pressure belt south of Iceland. In southern Europe, as a result, there were unusual storms, crop failures, famine and distress. Icelandic literature abounds in tales of volcanic eruptions and other violent natural catastrophes that occurred during the fourteenth century.Glaciers show effect of rising temperatures: they melt back faster than they are renewed by snow, so that they are shrinking. Many smaller ones have already disappeared.All those ancient records of climatic variations seemed to Pettersson an indication that cyclic changes in the oceanic circulation of the Atlantic had occurred. Applying the discoveries in his laboratory on Gulmarfiord, he believed that the climatic changes were brought about as the tide-induced submarine waves disturbed the deep waters of polar seas. Although tidal movements are often weak at the surface of these seas, they set up strong pulsations at the submarine boundaries, where there is a layer of comparatively fresh, cold water lying upon a layer of salty, warmer water.Less ice is drifting down from the frozen top of the world, opening far northern seas to fisheries and navigation – all signs of the warming up of subarctic regions.
.Warm Water Thaws lce
In the years or the centuries of strong tidal forces, unusual quantities of warm Atlantic water press into the Arctic Sea at deep levels, moving in under the ice. Then thousands of square miles of ice that norreally remain solidly frozen undergo partial thawing and break up. Drift ice, in extraordinary volume, enters the Labrador Current and is carried southward into the Atlantic. This changes the pattern of surface circulation, which is so intimately related to the winds, the rainfall and the air temperatures. For the drift ice then attacks the Gulf Stream south of Newfoundland and sends it on a more easterly course, deflecting the streams of warm surface water that usually bring a softening effect to the climate of Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen and northern Europe.
Although the really catastrophic disturbances of the polar region come only every 18 centuries, according to Pettersson, there are also rhythmically occurring periods that fall at varying intervals-for example, every nine, 18, or 86 years. These correspond to other tidal cycles. They produce climatic variations of shorter periods and of less drastic nature.
Fish Failed and Ships Sank
The year 1903, for instance, was memorable for its outbursts of polar ice in the Arctic and for the repercussions on Scandinavian fisheries. There was “a general failure of cod, herring .and other fish along the coast from Finmarken and Lofoten to the Skagerrak and Kattegat. The greater part of the Barents Sea was covered with pack ice up to May, the ice border approaching closer to the Murman and Finmarken coasts than ever before. Herds of arctic seals visited these coosts, and some species of the arctic whitefish extended their migrations to the Christiana Fiord and even entered into the Baltic.”
This outbreak of ice came in the year when earth, moon and sun were in a relative position that gives a secondary maximum of the tide-producing forces. The similar constellation of 1912 was another great ice year in the Labrador Current – a year that brought the disaster of the Titanic.
Now in our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate, and it is intriguing to apply Otto Pettersson’s ideas as a possible explanation.
It is now established beyond question that a definite change in the arctic climate set in about 1900, that it became astonishingly marked about 1980, and that it is now spreading into subarctic and temperate regions. The frigid top of the world is very clearly warming up.
Ships Sail Farther North
The trend toward a milder climate in the Arctic is perhaps most strikingly apparent in the greater ease of navigation in the North Atlantic and the Arctic Sea. In 1982, for example, the Knipowitsch sailed around Franz Josef Land for the first time in the history of arctic voyaging. And three years later the Russian ice-breaker Sadko went from the northern tip of Novaya Zemlya (Northern Land) to 82 degrees 41 minutes, north latitude – the northernmost point ever reached by a ship under its own power.
In 1940 the whole northern coast of Europe and Asia was remarkably free from ice during the summer months, and more than 100 vessels engaged in trade via the arctic routes. In 1942 a vessel unloaded supplies at the west Greenland port of Upernivik (latitude 72 degrees 43 minutes N) during Christmas week “in almost complete winter darkness.” During the Forties the season for shipping coal from West Spitsbergen ports lengthened to seven months, compared with three at the beginning of the century. The season when pack ice lies about Iceland became shorter by about two months than it was a century ago. Drift ice in the Russian sector of the Arctic Sea decreased by a million square kilometers between 1924 and 1944, and in the Laptev Sea two islands of fossil ice melted away completely, their position being marked by submarine shoals,
Birds and Fish Move Poleward
Activities in .the nonhuman world also reflect the warming of the Arctic – the changed habits and migrations of many fishes, birds, land mammals and whales.
Many new birds are appearing in far northern lands for the first time in our records. Some high-arctic forms, which thrive in cold climates, have shown their distaste for the warmer temperatures by visiting Greenland in decreasing numbers.
As the chill of the northern waters has abated and the fish have moved poleward, the fisheries around Iceland have expanded enormously, and it has become profitable for trawlers to push on to Bear Island, Spitsbergen and the Barents Sea. These waters now yield perhaps two billion pounds of cod a year – the largest catch of a single species by any fishery in the world. But its existence is tenuous. If the cycle turns the waters begin to chill, and the ice floes creep southward again, there is nothing man can do that will preserve the Arctic fishcries.
Glaciers Are Receding
The recession of the northern glaciers is going at such a rate that many smaller ones have already disappeared. If the present rate of melting continues others will soon follow them.
The melting away of the snow fields in the Opdal Mountains in Norway has exposed wooden – shafted arrows of a type used about A D. 400 to 500. This suggests that the snow cover in this region must now be less than it has been at any time within the past 1,400 to 1,500 years.
The glaciologist Hans Ahlmann reports that most Norwegian glaciers “are living only on their own mass without receiving any annual fiesh supply of snow”; that in the Alps there has been a general retreat and shrinkage of glaciers during the last decades, which became “catastrophic” in the summer of 1947, and that all glaciers around the North Atlantic coasts are shrinking. The most rapid recession of all is occurring in Alaska, where the Muir Glacier receded about 10 kilometers in 12 years.
The milder arctic and subarctic climate seems already to have resulted in longer growing seasons and better crops. The cultivation of oats has improved in Iceland. In Norway good seed years are now the rule rather than – the exception, and even in northern Scandinavia the trees have spread rapidly above their former timber lines, and both pine and spruce are making a quicker annual growth than they have for some time.
The World Is Warming Up
The countries where the most striking changes are taking place are those whose climate is most directly under the control the North Atlantic currents. Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen and all of northern Europe, as we have seen, experience heat and cold, drought and flood in accordance with the varying strength and warmth of the eastward – and northward – moving currents of the Atlantic.
It is interesting to calculate where our twentieth – century situation fits into the cosmic scheme of the shifting cycles of the tides. The great tides at the close of the Middle Ages, with their accompanying snow and ice, furious winds and inundating floods, are more than five centuries behind us. The era of weakest tidal movements, with a climate as benign as that of the early Middle Ages, is about four centuries ahead. We have therefore begun to move strongly into a period of warmer, milder weather. There will be fluctuations, as earth and sun and moon move through space and the tidal power waxes and wanes. But the long trend is toward a warmer earth; the pendulum is swinging.
Here’s a video from 1958 predicting global warming – still waiting
Here’s an article from 1922 – says it was pretty warm back then. Obviously not from industrial C02 emissions
Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt. November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean
Greenpeace admits it wasn’t telling the truth
Greenpeace Choking on its Own Bullshit!
Two of the better known fraudsters
Gore and Suzuki – Child Abusers?
The real goal of the environmentalists
Understanding the Environmental Movement
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David Suzuki Worries About Santa Clause
Editor
This is rich – David Suzuki worried about Santa Clause.
- Suzuki comes clean on green
Suzuki doesn’t care about Santa or Christmas. Suzuki is an atheist, who worships the earth, hates the human race and would be happy if the “naked ape” just disappeared from the face of the planet, although he seems in no hurry to leave.
David Suzuki is a sick man who suffers from a deep psychosis.
Maybe this Christmas bloggers should set up a “David Suzuki needs help fund.” With luck, we could raise enough cash to afford Suzuki a padded room and 24 hr. care.
Suzuki abuses children by trying to convince them that his fantasies are reality based. They’re not!
David Suzuki is a danger to children and a fraud.
Some people wish for peace on earth at Christmas.
My wish is that Suzuki be barred from having any contact with children.
My second wish, Suzuki agree to debate me in a public forum.
Merry Christmas!
Child abuse is the blanket term to describe four types of child mistreatment: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. In many cases children are the victims of more than one type of abuse. The abusers can be parents or other family members, caretakers such as teachers and babysitters, acquaintances (including other children), and (in rare instances) strangers.
- Two of the better known child abusers
For over three years this blog has done it’s best to expose the fraud of MMGW. One of the main tools used to spread this fraud has been children.
Through lies and deception, men like David Suzuki and Al Gore have been abusing your child for years.
Most authority figures your child comes in contact with, especially teachers and church leaders, are guilty of abusing your child through lies and deception.
Lets not forget the media and politicians who are equally guilty of these abuses.
In fact, any person or organization that is involved in the promotion of MMGW is guilty of child abuse.
Read “Cloak of Green” and the “Green Agenda” found on the top bar of this blog to get a better understanding of the abuse and abusers.
Make no mistake – your children are being abused in a most heinous manner by the very authorities you entrust them to.
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Suzuki had a different answer. By the time someone has reached university age, he said, they’ve been so corrupted, they’ve got so much invested in the system, that there’s really not much hope they can change. That’s why, he said, I’m focusing most of my efforts now on children. For them I think there’s hope.
Understanding the Environmental Movement
Understanding Sustainable Development
Mind Maps – A Form of Child Porn?
David Suzuki Speaks in 1972 People = Maggots
Al Gore and Maurice Strong – Con Artists
The Earth Charter and the Ark of the Gaia
Global Warming – The Real Agenda
The History of the Global Warming Scare
The Green Movement Comes Out of the Closet
Beware! The Green Shirts Are Here
The worst kind of ugly climate propaganda: David Suzuki targets kids at Christmas in the name of climate change
Posted on November 30, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Here’s the popup message solicitation you get when you visit the website for the first time:
Climate change is melting the North Pole and it’s no longer safe for Santa and his Workshop. So our dear old friend is packing up the sleigh to find somewhere else to live.
You can help! Move your mouse over this website to find gifts you can buy Santa to help him set up a temporary Workshop and protect the North Pole for his return.
Of course, you’re savvy enough to know we won’t be sending actual gifts to Santa. You will receive a tax receipt for 100% of your purchase and proceeds will be used by the David Suzuki Foundation to support our critical work to protect nature and the environment from threats like climate change.
Buying these green gifts and personalized ecards on behalf of hard-to-buy-for friends or relatives on your holiday list is a great way to show you’re thinking of them — and the planet!
Sincere thanks,
The David Suzuki Foundation
For more on MMGW/Climate Change visit Watts Up With That
When Electricity Made Sense
Canadian International Development Agency
Canadian International Development Agency dropped by for a visit today. What were they reading??
Al Gore and Maurice Strong – Con Artists Extraordinaire!
Maurice Strong was the creator of CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) in 1968
Today Maurice Strong is a criminal living in China, moving there after the “Oil for Food Scandal“or“Oil for Food Scandal“
Maurice Strong was chair of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment the beginning of the modern area “Green Movement”
Maurice Strong is also credited as the Father of Kyoto and Agenda 21
Maurice Strong is an honorary board member of the Suzuki Foundation and many other “Green Groups”
Maurice Strong is an internationalist who says “I knew Edmund Rothschild at one stage. He’s passed away now, but was a very creative fellow who took an interest in Canada. I don’t think I’ve ever done a piece of business with the Rothschilds. I’ve been on various foundations: the Rockefeller Foundation, and I worked with Ted Turner in helping him to set up the UN Foundation
Maurice Strong has done more to destroy the Nation of Canada than any I know of. These next two Gentlemen are working to complete Strong’s goals.
Paul Martin, worked for Strong and Stephen Harper our Prime Minister both say “Canadians must give up their sovereignty.
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Climate scientists targeted for fraud
Editor:
This is rich! Scientists living “High on the Hog” pushing the MMGW/climate-change fraud, now find themselves victims of fraud. Ironic ain’t it.
We should applaud these fine upstanding folks for putting a hurt……..if only minor, on these criminals that are destroying our economies and countries with their phony science.
May I live long enough to see them all behind bars where they belong.
I’m talking about the climate fraudsters, not the ones burning them for hotel fees.
Climate scientists targeted for fraud
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News
Fraudsters are targeting climate scientists with fake conferences in a bid to make cash and obtain details.
Scientists are sent e-mail invitations and directed to a fake conference website – often written using language taken from real scientific meetings.
Typically they are told their travel costs will be refunded – but they have to pay first to reserve a hotel room.
London appears to be their venue of choice, with some invitations imitating the names of top hotels.
One currently live website advertises a conference in Febuary, run by the “Global Warming Volunteer Group” and claiming to “focus on the risks and opportunities posed to society by global warming and… promote the exchange of ideas and learning across the Globe”.
The venue is given as the Crown London Hotel – whose address is the same as the real-life Crowne Plaza, just round the corner from Buckingham Palace.
Staff at the Crowne Plaza confirmed they have had at least one call enquiring about the non-existent conference.
The design of the website closely matches that of another supposed London-based conference, this time organised by the “Climate Change Working Group”, scheduled for late January at an address in North London that is actually a pet shop.
Global warning
Together with Langston James “Kimo” Goree VI, of the International Institute for Sustainable Development in New York, Lee Schipper recently circulated an e-mail to people in the climate change community warning of the scams.
Mr Goree runs a reporting service called the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, which gives detailed accounts of proceedings in fora such as the UN climate summits.
“The scammers have lifted entire portions of the IISD website, doing a search and replace to find IISD and replace it with their own fake name and creating a fake website that they use to fool people into believing that they are legitimate,” he said.
“The fake website is very cleverly done… they do speak the ‘lingo’ fluently.”
This is borne out by the “Global Warming Volunteer Group” website, which boasts a scientific programme and a “peer-review” panel to decide which talks to feature, says that proceedings will be published in a scientific journal, and claims a hook-up with the real-life Carbon Zero Project to make the conference carbon neutral.
The “conference” claims to be sponsored by companies such as energy giant BP, accountants PriceWaterhouse Coopers and the National Australia Bank – as well as the “Crown London Hotel”.
There are some indications of fakery, though, including citing the UK Government’s Department of Climate Change – which does not exist – as a supporter.
A spokesman for BP told the BBC: “We can find no evidence that BP is a sponsor or otherwise connected with the conference advertised on this website.
“We are attempting to contact the organisers for clarification, and our trademarks team will also be checking the website’s use of our company name and logo.”
