The Blackboard » Hopes Dim for Agreement in Copenhagen

Here, “downbeat” must mean statements that translate to: “Don’t expect us to do anything!” and “Don’t expect me to be there!” and “I’m only coming if it looks like the meeting is not going to be a catastrophe!”

CTV News | World a 'long way' from climate [scam] treaty, Harper says

Harper pointed out that there are 3,000 "bracketed pieces of text" in the Copenhagen working document, which means there are thousands of issues that require further discussion.

Fertiliser producers' windfall from farmers' climate exemption

THE Federal Government's decision to grant Australia's 150,000 farmers a blanket exemption from the planned greenhouse reduction scheme is set to deliver a financial gift to leading fertiliser producers such as Incitec Pivot and Wesfarmers.
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The writer owns Incitec Pivot shares.

Rudd bows to pressure on emissions deal

Dropping the hostility that characterised a recent major speech in which he lumped Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull with a prominent group of climate change sceptics, Mr Rudd said he wanted a deal.

Pasta Joke

The ‘global warming’ loony tunes continue. Today, The Sunday Times tells us that climate change is threatening the production of pasta in Italy.
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I fear that the Met Office is in danger of becoming a laughing stock with all these long-term predictions. Attempts to predict ‘growing’ weather seventy years hence just ask for a derisive smirk. And this particular exercise is even less convincing than usual because it clearly underplays the key role in change of adaptive agriculture.