Australian Climate Madness: Bushfire sense from Frank Campbell

Nor was the area burned in the latest fires exceptional. About 300,000 hectares is the likely total, compared with 1.5 million on Black Friday 1939, several million on Black Thursday 1851, 260,000 on Red Tuesday 1898 and 230,000 on Ash Wednesday. Note that the days of the week have mostly been used up already. Every 10 or 20 years there is a bushfire disaster. This isn't going to change.

Yale Environment 360: What Obama Must Do On the Road to Copenhagen

Obama must also make a prime-time, televised address to the nation about the climate crisis and the need for immediate action and U.S. global leadership. Such a speech would send a clear signal to the American public and the political establishment and prepare them to come together with the nations of the world in Copenhagen to meet this grave challenge.

SWW09: More from alarmist Richard Branson: hotels in space coming soon

Branson’s real insight that engineers could take home had mostly to do with the future that engineers will be called upon to build. He foresees hotels in space within a generation. Possibly a manned flight to Mars in the next 30 years. He talked a lot about renewable energies, and said some things about global warming and fuel sources that may not have sat well with the oil&gas industry people in the crowd.