Carbon [swindle] price must rise, IEA director says

The price of carbon emissions must rise to US$180 a metric ton by 2030 to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said.

"An energy revolution is necessary," Nobuo Tanaka said at the Asian Oil & Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur. European Union carbon dioxide allowances for December traded US$18.82 a ton today on the European Climate Exchange in London.

Fielding's climate mission | theage.com.au

Senator Fielding said he found that Dr Aldy and other Obama Administration officials were not interested in discussing the legitimacy of climate science.

The talks focused on the Democrats' Waxman-Markey climate bill, expected to go before Congress in August.

"Generally, they are not keen in engaging too much in the other view (on the science)," Senator Fielding said.

Climate change is cultural change - CleanEnergy-Project - for a better enviroment

One major problem is that we still do not have a clear idea how to implement the great transformation in our social systems. How can we move people to action? While we are debating the science and technology, there is very little discourse about the fact that climate change requires a massive social change in the order of the industrial revolution; but not in the time frame of a century – as Prof. Schellnhuber pointed out - but in the order of decades. For Prof. Dixon from the University of Waterloo it is clear that the solutions to climate change will reside largely on the level of social change.

Fielding 'duped' over solar flare theory

But climate scientists said Senator Fielding had been misinformed, while Greens leader Bob Brown said the solar flare theory had already been rebuked.

"His thinking is somewhere about 1985," Senator Brown told AAP.

"He's very slow on understanding the science and he's made the remarkable decision to go to the sceptics before going to the global scientists, and he's already today being rebuked by some of them."

"It's only a pity that some of the flare on the sun wasn't being shone on Senator Fielding in understanding the threat of climate change."
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University of Melbourne meteorology professor David Karoly said Senator Fielding had been duped by a group of climate change deniers.

"It is very surprising that he doesn't accept the best information from scientific assessments ... but seeks to get his information from a group of climate change deniers, an organisation that's receiving sufficient funding from the fossil fuel industry," Prof Karoly said.