Column - Turnbull feels climate heat | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

MALCOLM Turnbull is now paying plenty for having been too timid.

The Opposition Leader has long demanded the Government delay its emissions trading scheme, not daring to oppose it outright.

Well, on Monday the Prime Minister did just that, and added more help for business, noting: “These goals are shared by the Liberal Party.”

True, and Turnbull’s winning hand turned into a busted flush. Now media and business are demanding to know why he won’t back a scheme he wanted.

Critic proves Plimer, er, right | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But what worries me is that he didn’t even acknowledge the most basic point - that temperatures in the past have risen long before C02 did, suggesting the very opposite of what he seeks to argue. It seems, in fact, that higher temperatures may explain higher C02 concentrations, and not the other way around. Plimer is right.

Emissions retreat just so Napoleon | The Australian

Formally announcing a total abandonment of the carbon trading scheme must be the next step. Such action is necessary, and the sooner the better as the prospect of the proposed tax hangs like a sword of Damocles over any prospective investment decisions involving energy. Australia can never afford to carry such baggage and the global financial crisis merely brings this home.

Inadvertently, the PM's website remains spot-on in saying, "There is no greater challenge now facing our world and our nation than dangerous climate change." The challenge is to his Government's credibility at having commissioned endless reports, undermined the integrity of Treasury forecasting and created a monster department of hundreds of globe-trotting drones to promote phantom opportunities that a carbon tax would offer Australia. The "dangerous climate change" is the shift in the climate of business opinion and community opinion more generally, as the reality of a crippling new energy tax looms.

Science a slave to expediency | The Australian

Vested interests now dominate climate science. Whether climatologists, their employers and other people believe the government-approved line has become irrelevant, because they all wish to retain an income stream and whatever reputations they've established. These people advise governments, which subsequently set policy and research funding regardless of any contradiction with observational data.

Climate science is no longer an impartial truth but a slave to the yoke of politics and opportunism. If this continues, society will be the inevitable loser.

Save the planet! Poison Chinese | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Chinese workers making energy-saving fluorescent lightbulbs for Western consumers have been sickened by the hundreds due to mercury poisoning. While poor factory conditions in China shoulder most of the blame, the news does raise serious questions about just how “green” the mercury-rich fluorescent lightbulbs actually are.