Blame our drought on the sun, instead | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Robert Baker of the University of New England blames our drought on the sun, not man-made “global warming”...

Australian Climate Madness: ABC peddles yet more alarmist BS

Here's a discipline I have never encountered before: "climate law". However, it's not surprising that such a discipline is emerging since most Western governments are hell bent on imposing legislation to try to control a harmless trace gas, and such legislation will need lawyers to interpret it. Anyway, the ABC gives Amanda McKenzie, who has just completed her honours thesis in "climate law", free reign to spout the usual alarmist BS that we've come to expect from our national broadcaster...

Obama Beware: Brinksmanship Over Carbon Trading in Europe - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Last year, the European Union pledged to take aggressive measures to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by the end of the next decade if other countries adopted similar measures.

Today, the bloc members have whittled that to 20 percent, and they are still struggling to set the rules to make it happen.

Indeed, it seems clearer by the day that while carbon trading represents a neat and economically sound solution to cutting emissions on paper, in practice it may be unleashing a new bonanza of corporate lobbying and political brinksmanship.
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The gridlock in Europe should be considered a cautionary tale for the incoming administration led by President-elect Barack Obama. Mr. Obama made pledges to use similar carbon trading systems based on the sale of all permits.

Early indications are that he can expect a battle just as bitter as the one underway in Europe.