Australia on 'solo climate crusade': Joyce - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce says Australia's approach to climate change is a "solo crusade".

The Federal Government wants to introduce an emissions trading scheme by the middle of next year but Senator Joyce says it should be waiting to see what the rest of the world agrees to.
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"The way we're going down the climate change issue is just a solo crusade with no effect except on Australian domestic employment."

Oxfam: EU should blow €35 billion annually on the greatest scam in human history

By refusing to put money for developing countries on the table now, the EU risks jeopardising a global deal at the UN's climate change summit in Copenhagen in December. Europe must commit €35 billion a year to help poor countries adapt to climate change and grow in a low-carbon way.

From:
Elise Ford
Oxfam International

Condescending piece from your typical science-challenged mainstream journalist - Suzanne Goldenberg, UK Guardian: Meet the Sceptics

It would be easy to dismiss this gathering as a pity party for people on the fringes of modern thought. The contrast with the America embodied by Obama's election is stark. The 600 attendees (by the organisers' count) are almost entirely white males, and many, if not most, are past retirement age. Only two women and one African-American man figure on the programme of more than 70 speakers. Aside from a smattering of academics from well-known universities, they are affiliated with rightwing thinktanks, such as the Ayn Rand Institute, the Carbon Sense Coalition, or the scarily named Committee for A Constructive Tomorrow, that operate far outside the mainstream of public discourse.

Unlike Obama, who owed his victory to millions of supporters and donors, the climate change deniers operate within narrow bands of support: the conservative wing of the Republican party and the extreme end of the Christian Right. According to DeSmogblog, an environmentalist website, the 50 or so thinktanks linked to this conference between them have received $47m in funds over the years from Exxon and the Koch and Scaife families, who are the leading patrons of conservative causes in America. Both families made their first fortunes in the oil business.