Maritime Journal: Zero Carbon Caravan

UK based climate change campaigners planning to attend UN talks in Copenhagen are looking to get there without using fossil fuels. Setting off by bicycle from Wales in mid-August, they are hoping to hitch a ride on a sailboat across the North Sea in late September.

Outgoing EU president: "Climate change [hoax] pact was our top achievement" | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 14.07.2009

Poland's Jerzy Buzek has been elected the European Parliament's first president from the former-communist east. The right man for the job, says his predecessor Hans-Gert Poettering in an interview with Deutsche Welle.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Palin on cap-and-trade: Job-killer

We need to make all of this clear. Cap-and-trade rations energy production, which means there will be less of it for a long time. Alternatives are not ready for the kind of mass production that would allow a complete replacement of energy, and probably won’t be for decades, if ever in some cases (notably wind power, as GreenChoice showed and as T. Boone Pickens finally realized). That means a lower standard of living that will impact America regressively, with the lowest income earners getting hit the hardest. The drain on the economy from high energy prices means less jobs and higher retail prices for goods and services, again a regressive consequence of energy rationing.

Obama and his Utopian allies promise that government will help close the gap by offering more services to the unemployed and the poor at the expense of the “rich”. What will that do? It will further handicap the economy by keeping capital out of the markets. Even worse, it will vastly expand the dependent class in America who have to go on the dole to survive. And many of those ardent liberals will be pretty happy with that outcome, too.

Australia's top models at science conference

Australia's top models will take centre stage in Cairns this week as scientists meet to discuss ways to understand climate change, improve air safety and enhance agricultural sustainability.

The IMACS/MODSIM Congress will attract more than 650 experts in modelling and simulation from Australia and overseas to the Cairns Convention Centre from July 13-17, 2009.