The Scottish Parliament - News - Committee seeks views on climate change legislation

...The committee is encouraging all individuals and organisations with an interest in climate change to provide their views on the Scottish Government’s Climate Change (Scotland) Bill published earlier this month.
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Committee Convener Patrick Harvie MSP said: “Climate change is the biggest challenge of modern times which, if unchecked, will destroy the lives of people across the world. The Bill has the potential to allow Scotland to make its mark and lead the way with innovative and effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Ross Garnaut says Rudd's climate change plan gives to much to business | News.com.au Top stories | News.com.au

THE Federal Government's own climate adviser has savaged parts of its climate change plan, describing the assistance to big business as "over the top".

Professor Ross Garnaut says a massive lobbying exercise by vested interests, unprecedented in the history of Australian public policy, has secured an overly generous deal for business.

The CO2 - Temperature link « Watts Up With That?

This adds up to my belief, that a cooling after a longer warming trend, mostly due to the bigger biosphere, could be accompanied by quite rapid fall in CO2 levels.

The Deadliest U.S. Natural Hazard: Extreme Cold « Watts Up With That?

Of course we all know that the human race has historically done better during warm periods. While we’ve seen a slight warming in the last century, we’ve also seen a worldwide improvement in the human condition.
Warm - what’s not to like?

The Reference Frame: Crackpot John Holdren will become Obama's science adviser

Science magazine reports that John Holdren, a professional environmental judgment day doomsayer, is going to become Barack Obama's top science adviser.

John Holdren is the ultimate example of the pseudointellectual waste that has recently contaminated universities and academies throughout the Western world.
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These days, his main weapon is to articulate more radical and scary forecasts about the climate than (almost) anyone else who uses a proper English grammar. ;-) And he is always careful to be called "Professor" and "big guy" by all the journalists, see also this BBC piece. There is absolutely no valuable content in anything that Holdren has ever produced.
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It's very bad that people whose approach to the world is the exact opposite of science - because they prefer irrational phobias, "prestige" of symposia, and visible jobs paid by gullible manipulated folks over rational, humble, careful, and ever more refined scientific arguments and findings - are being linked to science, and it is bad that President-elect Obama is helping to distort the definition of science and its proper role in the society in this way