Universities should lead climate [fraud] charge - News

Seats of learning have traditionally been crucibles for revolution and upheaval, and so it should be with climate change policy in the UK, the government claims.

Although somewhat removed from the sandal wearing, dread-locked iconoclasts that he appears to be appealing to, secretary for state for business, innovation and skills, Lord Mandelson announced this week that universities are uniquely positioned when it comes to leading the charge for aggressive climate change targets.

Jennifer Marohasy » Carbon Trading and Dinner: A Note from Barnaby Joyce

Mr Rudd’s ETS is merely a gesture, a token. There are all sorts of wonderful gestures we can offer as comfort for the world’s problems, however if imposing a tax on consumers, which Mr Rudd wants to do, is the right way to deal with things, then we may as well impose a tax to bring about world peace.

Mr Rudd keeps coming up with all these peculiar ideas.

Imposing a crippling tax on consumer’s, forcing us to pay massively inflated prices at the supermarket for the food we eat and forcing Australian farmers out of business is implausible, short sighted and dangerous.

On Climate, Comedy, Copyrights, and Cinematography « Watts Up With That?

Sitting down Saturday night, to watch the video again, detecting through its exquisite subtleties and nuance, I couldn’t help but laugh, because once again I noticed that everything reported in it was just wrong.

In fact, it probably was the worst job of fact-finding I had ever seen, which as WUWT readers know, is a bold assessment.

Sea level rise by 2100, “nailed”! Between 7 and 82 centimeters « Watts Up With That?

The results are published today in Nature Geoscience and predict that the amount of sea level rise by the end of this century will be between 7- 82 cm – depending on the amount of warming that occurs – a figure similar to that projected by the IPCC report of 2007.