All-time October low recorded in Bavaria - The Local

Meteorologists on Tuesday morning recorded the lowest ever October temperature in Germany, as the mercury dipped to a chilly -24.3 degrees Celsius in Bavaria’s Berchtesgaden national park.

Tax carbon rather than trade in it | The Australian

"We've seen the corruption and crony capitalism that has been evident in the advanced industrialised countries ... It makes you very worried," [Nobel laureate and Columbia University economics professor Joseph Stiglitz] said. "What we realised now is the allocation of emissions permits is a market that is a couple of trillion dollars a year. So we're giving away, allocating that amount of money, and that just attracts the worst kind of behaviour that you can imagine."

Former president of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo, who is professor of international economics at Yale University and director of the Yale Centre for the Study of Globalisation, told the forum trading in permits in developing countries would lead not just to businesses lobbying to get free permits, which amounted to receiving a lot of money, but to outright corruption.
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So if a carbon tax is so much better, why are governments pressing ahead with emissions trading at Copenhagen?

Rogoff tells Focus: "The reason that we're going to get (emissions) quotas rather than a tax is that it allows the government to quietly give away all the rights to the polluters. And the industries are powerful lobbyists. With the quota system (governments) can give (polluters) trillions of dollars under the table that with a (carbon) tax system would be difficult to do."

Toyota Wants California Low-Carbon Credits for Its Battery Cars | Carbon Offsets Daily

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest seller of hybrid vehicles, said potentially valuable emissions credits that California plans to give to utilities for supporting rechargeable cars should go to automakers instead.

Save the planet: time to eat dog? - environment | Stuff.co.nz

The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found.

Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects who specialise in sustainable living, say pet owners should swap cats and dogs for creatures they can eat, such as chickens or rabbits, in their provocative new book Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living.

Flashback: Save the planet! Burn your dog’s poo | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Fight global warming by chaining Rover’s backside to a power station