Monday, November 09, 2009

Coalition MPs deny man-made climate change - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Liberal Leader in the Senate, Nick Minchin, says a majority of his colleagues do not believe humans are causing climate change.
[Fraudster Al Gore heckled in his home town] | The Tennessean
Radio talk show host and columnist Phil Valentine, who says global warming doesn't exist and is a critic of Gore, was hanging around the edges of the crowd hoping for an interview, along with some others who agree with Valentine's view.

"You're a traitor," Matt Gulliver, 30, called out toward Gore, who was seated, signing books.
[Photo: It's come to this: James Hansen speaks to sparse crowd of global warming believers at Boston common sleepout]
James Hansen is speaking inspirational words to the youth of @thelcampaign on the Boston common he is going to #sleepout too!
SHHHH… « The Leadership Campaign
James Hansen is sleeping in our tent! [diagram of sleeping arrangements included!]
Gordon Brown is right: rich western banks should pay for the developing world to go green | Business | The Guardian
A global tax on banking transactions would curb speculation and the proceeds could break the deadlock on Copenhagen climate talks
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The west needs to learn the lessons of Doha and use transfers of money and know-how to kickstart the Copenhagen process. That's where a transaction tax – the transfer of resources from the socially useless to the socially disadvantaged – comes in. Governments should grab it with both hands.

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