CO2 REALITY CHECK by Norm Kalmanovitch | Climate Realists

"This clearly demonstrates that only 500 of the 11,700 million metric tonnes of annual increase in atmospheric CO2 was from fossil fuels".

Quadrant Online - Bob Carter - Media ecoevangelists

It is a commonplace that the mainstream media distort the public debate on environmental issues of the day.

A case in point is the continuing uncritical alarmism about allegedly human-caused global warming, at a time when the globe has been cooling for ten years and human causation remains chimerical. The Fairfax press, together with public broadcasters ABC and SBS, furnish egregious examples of this on a regular basis as they dutifully promulgate – without a trace of critical analysis - the unrestrained, apocalyptic imaginings of the many scientific, environmental and business lobby groups who are now poised to benefit from a carbon dioxide taxation system (aka emissions trading scheme; ETS).

Daily, Australians are confronted on the radio and TV news with politically opportune opinions on “urgent” environmental matters by scientifically ignorant spokespersons for unelected, unaccountable and inexpert lobby groups: Greenpeace, ACF , WWF and the Climate Institute, to name but a few. By what authority does the ABC allow these ecoevangelists to grandstand their relentless and extreme views at public expense – effectively providing their organisations with continuous free advertising at the taxpayers’ expense?

Denver Daily - Energy debate buzzing

As the debate over federal climate change legislation energizes, opposition to the cap and trade legislation is growing.

But just as opposition grows, so do cries by environmental groups to pass more stringent legislation to combat global warming.

AFP: UN climate chief says time running out for deal

"Time is not just pressing, it has almost run out," UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said in his opening speech.

"There is no plan B, and if we do not realise plan A the future will hold us to account for it," he said in the address to around 2,500 government delegates and representatives from business and environmental groups.
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The final talks before Copenhagen are in Barcelona from November 2-6.

"Our children and grandchildren will never forgive us unless action is taken. Time is running out, we have two months before Copenhagen," Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said in his opening speech on Monday.