Emission: impossible

IF ONE thing is missing from prime-time television it is a glossy campaign that explains the emissions trading system to the average person.
It can’t be that hard a sell.
After all, polls consistently show people are worried about climate change and want something done. Their desire for action contributed to the election of the Rudd Labor Government almost two years ago.
All it would take are some beautiful photos of the Great Barrier Reef in all its glorious colours and the Snowy Mountains and a soothing voice-over asking the viewer if he or she would pay $5 a week to save all this.

On a related note, can I please have a million dollars per week for my guarantee that the ocean won't rise 20 feet this century?

[To Singapore:  Hearty congrats for your climate fraud Nobel!!]

In the first paragraph, your Correspondent Mr Abdul Gafoor states that Singapore has not produced any nobel laureates so far. However, this is untrue. Singapore does have a Nobel Peace prize winner and he is a professor in geography at the NUS.

Prof Wong Poh Poh was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with the IPCC and Al Gore in recognition for their work done in climate change

Worlds coral reefs provide $1.2 mln annual services to every human, says Indian economist

Washington, October 18 - ANI: A preliminary research by an Indian economist has revealed jaw-dropping dollar values of the ecosystem services of biomes like forests and coral reefs to humans, rising to as much as 1.2 million dollars per hectare, per year.

Undertaken to help societies make better-informed choices, the economic research shows a single hectare of coral reef, for example, provides annual services to humans valued at US 130,000 dollars on average, rising to as much as 1.2 million dollars.

Harper's inconvenient truth | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

The prime minister knows cap-and-trade is wrong for Canada and bad for Canadians. He should say it