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ANOTHER day, and another “scamference” invitation arrives – this one to a “Climate Change Volunteer Conference 2012”. It’s supposed to take place at the “Royal Eco Hotel”, 26 Brook Street, London, W1K 5DQ – which turns out to be the same shoe shop as the “London Eco Hotel” venue of the “Climate Change International Conference” to which we were previously invited (9 June).

Meanwhile, marine researcher Phil Clapham writes to say that, “tired of receiving endless invitations to money-making conferences in China with no relevance whatsoever to what I do, [I have] started submitting…

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