Tuesday, June 23, 2009

 HOPES FADE FOR US-CHINA CLIMATE [HOAX] DEAL
BOSTON--Hopes are dimming for a climate change deal between the United States and China following a key U.N. meeting in Germany, experts say.
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Environmental groups are concerned that the lack of progress at Bonn means there may be no agreement at Copenhagen, or one that fails to slow climate change.  [Via Benny Peiser]
Australian Senate to delay emissions [scam] vote | Green Business | Reuters
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's parliament is set to delay any vote on the government's controversial emissions trading scheme until August, further confusing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's options for a possible early election.
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"They have been filibustering, wasting time, using every tactic they can to delay debate on this bill," Climate Change Minister Penny Wong told reporters.
[Breaking: Scientists use "seriously flawed" model for 25 years]
American researchers say they have uncovered a mathematical mistake made by the dinosaur boffinry community, meaning that the weight of live dinos has long been massively overestimated. In a development with devastating consequences for various much-fancied works of fiction, it now appears that in fact the dinosaurs were significantly slenderer than had been thought.

"Paleontologists have for 25 years used a published statistical model to estimate body weight of giant dinosaurs. By re-examining data in the original reference sample, we show that the statistical model is seriously flawed," says Gary Packard of Colorado State University.

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