Nationals find cause for survival | The Australian

Most of the media debate about the structural political fallout from this issue has focused on the rise of the Greens in inner-city seats. But last weekend the Nationals' spiritual leader, Barnaby Joyce, offered a plausible view of a populist backlash.

"I can tell you the mood is changing," the senator told this column about Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme. "I am now getting hundreds of emails a day from people. They hate this policy. They just hate it. It was marvellous when it was a thought bubble but people are saying, 'We can hardly afford to live in our home.' People see this as madness. And they actually get the gist of it. They know it's a new tax and they are asking: 'How does putting another new tax on me change the temperature of the globe?'

Comment On News Article “U.S. Chamber of Commerce Seeks Trial On Global Warming” « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

I do not know if a “trial” is effective, however, it is certainly clear that the EPA ruling is scientifically very flawed...

BBC - Mark Easton's UK: Perfect Storm 2030: Public attitudes

Ed Miliband says he is in "the persuasion business". So how do you persuade people when research suggests that many of them don't trust your message?

The secretary of state for energy and climate change told the BBC recently that his job is to convince people "to make big changes" in their lives. Unless that happens, he warns, the planet and our way of life will be damaged for generations to come.

Holocene Fluctuations in Arctic Sea-Ice Cover

Since the change in sea-ice cover observed at the end of the 20th century (which climate alarmists claim to be unnatural) was far exceeded by changes observed multiple times over the past several thousand years of relatively stable atmospheric CO2 concentrations (when values never strayed much below 250 ppm or much above 275 ppm), there is no compelling reason to believe that the increase in the air's CO2 content that has occurred since the start of the Industrial Revolution has had anything at all to do with the declining sea-ice cover of the recent past; for at a current concentration of 385 ppm, the recent rise in the air's CO2 content should have led to a decrease in sea-ice cover that far exceeds what has occurred multiple times in the past without any significant change in CO2.