Australian Climate Madness: Alarmist overdrive from The Age

I don't know if I can face another 12 days of scaremongering from Poznan. The Age lives up to its alarmist reputation with a cool-headed and dispassionate account of the first day's proceedings:

War, hunger, poverty and sickness will stalk humanity if the world fails to tackle climate change, a 12-day UN conference on global warming heard.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Obama can’t get a global climate treaty ratified, so what should he do instead? Part 1

It is all but inconceivable that Obama can deliver the 67 votes in the Senate needed to ratify a global climate treaty — no matter what happens in the 12 months between Poznań and Copenhagen. And the only thing worse than no global climate treaty in 2009 is a treaty that Obama can’t get ratified.
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So even if there are 60 Senate votes to override a right-wing filibuster against a strong domestic climate bill, there aren’t 67 votes for a new climate treaty. And that means the UNFCCC process as we now know it is essentially a Dead Man Walking, even if nobody knows it yet.

Obama needs to think very hard about whether he is making promises he can’t keep.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » These Can’t Be Related, Can They?

Reinsurance giant Munich Re, a company I have worked with in the past, says that global warming should mean increased premiums...
...At the same time Munich Re says that its bottom line requires increased rates...