Miranda Devine | Planet doomsayers need a cold shower

Plimer, 62, has spent much of his life working in Broken Hill, in the real world of rocks and soil, far enough from the social pressure of academia to think for himself.

Such independent scientific dissenters have been demonised, their evidence marginalised, as climate change has become a quasi-religious belief. But you cannot stop one side from debating what is the biggest policy decision of our era.

Plimer's book, accessible as it is to the layperson, will help redress the power imbalance between those who claim to own the knowledge and the rest of us.

CO2 = Pollution. Now What? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

It’s nearly official. Carbon dioxide, the bubbles in beer, is a pollutant in the context of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday. The long-lived heat-trapping gas, while benign in a brew pub, is deemed a threat to public health and welfare through its growing impact on climate and, in the long run, sea levels.
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Then there’s the global nature of global warming. Molecules of carbon dioxide spewed by a taxi cab in Beijing or a power plant in Boston mix freely in the atmosphere, adding to global-scale heating in the long haul.

Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking | The Australian

ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
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Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m.

Try again on carbon emissions trading scheme: Ross Garnaut | The Australian

CLIMATE change adviser Ross Garnaut says it could be better for the Senate to vote down the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme so Australia could "have another crack" at getting it right later - a view a majority of senators have now said they share.