"Just give us the bloody money"

That, I am unreliably informed, is to be the sub-title of the next edition of a book by Sir Crispin Tickell, environmental campaigner, of which

the first edition called for public funds to be made available to prevent global cooling while the second edition called for public funds to be made available to prevent global warming.

Hat tip to Christopher Monckton who has written an incendiary (putting it mildly) open letter to the chairman of the IPCC, disproving the cardinal 'scientific' assertion of the IPCC and accusing its chairman, in terms, of, inter alia

• having numerous substantial direct or indirect vested financial and commercial interests profiting from the emissions reduction processes that the documents produced by the IPCC under his chairmanship have triggered
• knowingly and repeatedly publishing false data
• knowingly and repeatedly permitting his tax-payer funded associates' distortion of the scientific peer-review process.

... among other things. Allegedly. And all on the public, I mean, PUBLIC record.

Monckton ends by threatening to prosecute Pachauri and his associates:

We should be grateful for your response within 48 hours, failing which we shall be entitled to presume that you, the IPCC and the EPA – to whose administrator we are copying this letter – intend to conspire, and are conspiring, to obtain a pecuniary advantage by deceiving the public as to the nature, degree, and significance of the global surface temperature trend. In that event, conspiracy to defraud taxpayers would be evident, and we should be compelled to place this letter in the hands of the relevant investigating and prosecuting authorities.

Blimey. I mean, phew. Cats. Lots of cats. Pigeons. Gonna be feathers everywhere, right?

Sheesh, I am so looking forward to the BBC's 'environmental analyst', Roger Harrabin, broadcasting his authoritative take on all this.

What? Oh.

Hat tip to Plato.