The climate sure is changing when doubt gets an airing | Andrew Bolt - Herald Sun

Indeed, I'd now reckon a quarter of Labor's frontbenchers and more than half of the Liberals' are closet sceptics.

It is tragic that so many smart people are too scared to say what they believe, especially when it's true. I blame most our crusading don't-argue media.

I wonder how much public opinion would turn against the warming scare if such sceptics came out and declared themselves. What a blow they'd strike not just for this country, but for reason.

But for now we still remain the prey of warming priests, carpet-baggers and the barking mad. The climate may be changing, but not enough for many sceptics to yet dare step outside.

SF Politics Examiner: Al Gore’s online Current TV (based in San Francisco) abandons its own reporters

The silence is deadening and shameful. Two of Al Gore’s reporters (his online Current TV network), Laura Ling and Euna Lee, have been held captive for over a month by North Korea.

In that time, the former Vice President has not spoken a word of protest, his site is deleting comments from readers, they’ve posted a guard at their San Francisco studio to keep out the press, and not one article has appeared on his own journalist’s in their news section.

Slash population to save the world: green lobbyist | watoday.com.au

Australia should consider having a one-child policy to protect the planet, an environmental lobby group says.

Sustainable Population Australia says slashing the world's population is the only way to avoid "environmental suicide".

National president Sandra Kanck wants Australia's population of almost 22 million reduced to seven million to tackle climate change.
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She did not suggest restrictions to immigration, saying Australia should take responsibility for cutting its own population instead of barring entry to others.