Monday, April 20, 2009

Capital’s carbon zero - gone by lunchtime - NewsWire.co.nz
A CARBON-NEUTRAL-by-2012 deadline for Wellington was probably too ambitious and will likely be abandoned, says Mayor Kerry Prendergast.
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The committee unanimously agreed to review the goal when a report predicted the cost of voluntarily offsetting emissions would be between $200,000 and $1 million per year, says Ms Prendergast.

“[The climate change office] said we shouldn’t be putting in such an ambitious goal because we wouldn’t be able to achieve it. What they’re saying now is that we should have a target of reducing emissions.
Drought not proof of global warming | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Strange, the more we learn, the less certain the theory of man-made apocalyptic warming seems.
Sceptics are “parasites” to an ANU scientist | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
This is not science but religion, and one to appeal to the inner totalitarian, denouncing non-believers as “parasites”, “viruses” and enemies of “humanity”.

Now where and when might we have heard such rhetoric before, Glikson, and applied against whom? And how does the ANU come to employ such a “scientist”?
Save the planet! Stop eating | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
First breathing was turned into a crime against the environment. Now eating is, too

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