Australian Climate Madness: The true price of Kyoto

Remember Kevin Rudd, jetting off to Bali in the first blush of his term of office, to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? Remember that Howard was the great climate change denier who, like George W Bush, had refused to ratify it? Remember how the liberal media raved about the decision?

Well, far from being just a pointless political gesture (which it still is), it is also potentially a huge burden on Australia's weakened economy. The Australian reports that the UN has imposed a new target on cutting greenhouse emissions - and if Australia fails to meet it, could cost the Government $870 million in carbon credits...

Alarmist Charles Clover: When alleged evidence battles with belief - Telegraph

So when Sammy Wilson, interestingly enough also a member of the low-church Protestant tradition, prefers to act on what he believes, rather than the balance of the evidence, we recognise where he is coming from, but he looks daft.

Doubt banned | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Laura was going to look into matters. The next thing I knew, the
poll was removed from the website without explanation.

So I rang back and spoke to Dianne, who was (she said) in close
touch with the producer in charge of the poll. She told me the
poll was taken down because the numbers didn’t add up. Normally
they get 200 respondents on a poll. This one had drawn 17,000 by
Monday. They decided it had been hijacked and they even knew the
website responsible for directing people to vote.

I told her maybe they’d touched a raw nerve with the question
about global warming being a myth and the poll had aroused
interest. She hadn’t thought of that, she said. Then I asked her
when the poll was hijacked. She said over the weekend. I said
well that doesn’t add up because by Friday night the website of
the journalist Andrew Bolt was reporting the poll was already
showing 90.4% voting global warming a myth. She became flustered.
She said it was hijacked Friday night. I asked was it Andrew
Bolt’s website that hijacked the poll? She said yes.

I think I can leave it to you to draw the appropriate
conclusions.