A real debate on global warming hasn't happened | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Another area of science in which dissent is absolutely squashed is in the realm of our global climate.

Our very own Albert Arnold Gore Jr. has accumulated astounding acclaim and wealth in the political, press, mining, tobacco, beef and carbon dioxide rackets while jetting to distant capitals to lecture you and me about our greed and reckless disregard of Mother Earth.

'The end' as a weapon - Opinion - USATODAY.com

Some environmentalists have their own fixation with the apocalypse — just not the biblical one. This involves the wrath of nature and the ecological end times. But fear is an ineffective tool for any cause.
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If history has taught us anything, Jim Proctor notes, it's the prevalence, and folly, of end-of-the-world predictions. "How many times," Proctor asks, "have religious figures and others prophesized the end — and then had to revise their predictions when it didn't happen? And how much less did people listen to them and believe them after that?"

Blessed change in the climate | The Australian

EVERY now and then you have to be grateful when you discover our political leaders have told a deliberate, calculated lie. Monday was such a day. Kevin Rudd's announcement of a carbon emissions reduction target of 5 per cent by 2020 demonstrated that his pre-election claim that climate change was the great moral issue of our time, and demanding that Australia lead the way, was what Winston Churchill would call a terminological inexactitude: a whopper, a piece of bare-faced duplicity of epic proportions. But thank goodness Rudd and his colleagues deceived us.

And deceive us they did. At the election last year, Rudd said Australian wanted real action on climate change. And Rudd acted, in a real symbolic kind of way. He ratified the Kyoto Protocol. More symbolism when he promised to cut emissions by 60 per cent on 2000 levels by 2050, 41 years away.

While most of the media has failed to take Rudd to task, the truth is that if the Rudd Government genuinely believed climate change to be the greatest moral threat facing humanity, and if it fully accepted the findings of the UN panel that laid down a minimum target cut of 25 per cent to 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 to prevent catastrophic climate change, then we now would have bigger cuts. A true believer in those claims could do no less.

To a true believer, policy responses to a temporary global financial crisis could not compete with the sort of policies required to stem permanent, irrevocable damage caused by climate change.

But, thank God, Rudd and his ministers are not in fact true believers... [Via Greenie Watch]