Finally, a politician doing what politicians should do | JoNova

This is big step. Steve Fielding in Australia holds a crucial senate vote on the proposed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). Astonishingly (for a politician) he stands out from the crowd for simply saying the obvious. He wants to “hear from both sides of the debate.”

A simple statement like this should not be remarkable—but it’s so rare.
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The muddy thinking in journalists is not just unfortunate, it’s dangerous. We have the illusion of ‘free press’, but when the press is untrained in logic and reason, free press is just free propaganda. And it’s worse because it’s disguised.

Gore’s profits of doom | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

So what selfless, non-partisan souls would have arranged for this noble man to come visit us on his gas-free plane
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Non-profit and non-partisan? Yet when I check who actually runs Safe Climate Australia (click on “About” and then “Foundation Group") I find instead a very partisan group of urgers, most of whom indeed profit from warming alarmism.

I think we can now drop this pretence that warming alarmists are just simple, pure individuals who save the planet out of nothing but a sense of duty. For a start, may we ask how much green-tycoon Gore is being paid in cash or inducements, and how he squares his travel with his message to emit less?

Unseasonably-cool weather slows ice cream sales | Winnipeg | News | Winnipeg Sun

Winnipeg is shivering through a June cold spell that was expected yesterday to lead to a record low maximum temperature.