Gerald Warner: Fear the unanimity in our Wee Scotch Senate - Scotsman.com News
HIGH pretensions in low places: the pygmy politicos in the Wee Scotch Senate surpassed themselves last week by passing the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill, their most ambitious excursion yet into self-parody. As legislation goes, we shall not look upMore barking madness from Reuters: "Crops face toxic timebomb in warmer world: study"
on its like again – unless the Loch Ness Monster (Protected Species) Bill is in the pipeline.
This was Holyrood at its best: sanctimonious, dictatorial, self-regarding and totally divorced from reality. Stewart Stevenson, the Minister for Climate Change and Candle-Powered Kettles, told the chamber: "Scotland can be proud of this bill, the most ambitious piece of climate change legislation anywhere in the world." One wonders why the rest of the world has passed on this.
Hyperbole became so competitive as to threaten the ozone layer. "World-leading" was a favourite epithet; another refrain ran, "All eyes are on Scotland". When it comes to leading the world in surfing a wave of hysteria, Scotland has previous, for example the witchcraft trials under James VI. Today's condemned necromancers are offenders with inadequately lagged attics, overfilled kettles and lightbulbs strong enough to read by. Their days are numbered. [Via Climate Realists]
By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, AsiaRainforests [Allegedly] More Fragile Than Estimated: Discovery News
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Staples such as cassava on which millions of people depend become more toxic and produce much smaller yields in a world with higher carbon dioxide levels and more drought, Australian scientists say.
Changes in the forest will not be immediate. The team's results suggest the rainforest may appear unaffected by climate change until around 2050, even if temperatures rise continuously for the next few decades. But the damage will pile up in the meantime, and huge tracts of rainforest may be reduced to grassy savannah by the end of the century.[But of course: Now Paul Krugman wants trade penalties on countries who fail to buy into the greatest scientific fraud in history:] Climate, trade, Obama - NYTimes.com
The truth is that there’s perfectly sound economics behind border adjustments related to cap-and-trade.
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