The Bear Growls, The EU Grovels: Adventures in the European Gas Market — MasterResource

Among those hoping that global warming is real we should now count the EU. As winter approaches there is, quelle surprise, the initial hint of yet another gas supply crisis between Russia, Ukraine and Russia’s EU customers.

PM - Kevin Rudd attacks 'climate change sceptics' 06/11/2009

Speaking at the Lowy Institute in Sydney this afternoon, Kevin Rudd described climate change sceptics and what he called 'deniers' as reckless gamblers who were playing with the future of Australia's children and grandchildren.

Mr Rudd said they were radicals not conservatives, and were driven by vested interests. [MP3]

Fiery mountains of coal may have caused mass extinction 250 mln yrs ago

One suggestion is that the heat of the magma could have baked many billions of tonnes of CO2 out of the coal over a geologically brief period of a few thousand years.

The ensuing climate change and ocean acidification would account for the extinctions.