Australian Climate Madness: PM's sick-making YouTube message on climate

Not for those with weak stomachs, Krudd spouts all the usual nonsense about "tackling climate change", including putting way too much faith in solar, wind and geothermal, and witters on about the two errors in four words "carbon pollution reduction scheme". Just in case I haven't made this clear before, IT ISN'T CARBON and IT ISN'T POLLUTION. But hey, just details, right? It's nauseating.

Victims Of Climate Change, Or Of Human Stupidity « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

The real eye-opener is a quote from the printed version of that same article (on the International Herald Tribune), that for some reason has not been deemed worth of preservation by Reuters themselves:

Risk-averse insurance companies, with their passion for actuarial tables and probabilities, are as much in the dark as anyone else when it comes to the unknown consequences of climate change

Fabricating & Metalworking's Riley Takes Congress to Task on Cap-and-Trade | Reuters

Fabricating & Metalworking editor Mike Riley has been the most outspoken opponent of the federal cap-and-trade legislation, also referred to as the Waxman-Markey Bill. "Passage of this bill will impose the largest tax increase in the history of the world on you and me," says Riley.

Warren Buffet’s Investment at Risk? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Speaking at an industry conference Sunday, BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu said a lack of consumer incentives and subsidies has kept BYD from making a plug-in hybrid car available for private buyers. He warned that a continued lack of government assistance might doom all-electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the marketplace because of their currently high cost.

If these cars are so great, why do they need government assistance?