Turnbull sets $20b terms to back emissions plan : thewest.com.au

Gaining Opposition support for his emissions trading scheme is likely to cost Kevin Rudd more than $20 billion after Malcolm Turnbull released a wish list of changes last night.

After a hastily convened 45-minute telephone hook-up of the shadow Cabinet, the Opposition Leader released nine principles to be satisfied for the Prime Minister to get coalition support for his ETS.

Ottawa: Summer of our discontent: Coldest, soggiest July in 17 years

(The summer of 1992, on the other hand, was ruined by the eruption of the Pinatubo volcano a year earlier, which, said Phillips, “created a dust veil that surrounded the northern hemisphere and essentially blocked the sun, changed the jet-stream location and gave us that year without summer.”

This year’s low-pressure system finally seems on the move. But will it be in time to save summer?

Phillips admits there’s a little panic out there.

“Every day now’s getting a little shorter in terms of daylight,” he said.

“When is summer going to arrive? It may be September or October — who knows? But our models are showing that there is some hope.”

The Begley Ray-pore! | GlobalWarming.org

I could spend all my days hat-tipping Marc Morano at Climate Depot for the treasure trove of climate realism he posts there, but it’s almost like citing a Drudge link — what’s the point of drawing attention to a story that everyone else who follows Web news has already read?

Nevertheless occasionally it’s still worth doing, and today’s reason is Newsweek science editor Sharon Begley. Morano’s link calls her column in the August 3 issue “silly,” but for years Begley has been a doddering old media leftist whose science perspective parallels Helen Thomas’s political taint. Still operating as though weekly newsmags add insightful background to mainstream thought, Begley rambles through tired global warming alarmism peppered with her own clumsy brand of activist exhortation