Big electricity generators plead for $20bn ETS aid | The Australian

ELECTRICITY generators are pleading for between $5 billion and $20bn in extra assistance from the Rudd government to avoid an "industry crisis" under the emissions trading scheme, with some suggesting the compensation could be tied to new investments in renewable power.

Will Health Battle Wound Climate Effort? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

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Rural MPs climate change doubters

IT IS only a snapshot, but may well ring true for Malcolm Turnbull.

A study examining the climate change beliefs of 11 rural politicians has found an overwhelming majority of Coalition MPs interviewed doubted that global warming was linked to greenhouse gas emissions.

Roger Pielke Jr. on being spectacularly wrong on important issues: "So what?"

In researching this issue I came across an article by Ehrlich and Holdren on population growth and technology from 1969 in which they suggest that investing in vasectomies rather than building nuclear power plants might be a better investment.
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Holdren (and his colleagues) turned to to be wrong on this issue. So what?