Lomborg - Cloud control

Drastic and immediate cuts in carbon emissions, as advocated by most of the green lobby, are an expensive way of doing very little good. They would reduce growth and especially hurt the world’s poor. But there is another, better way

Enterprise is not the enemy | The Australian

The most rational strategy for a climate sceptic is to short the carbon market and wait for the big crash.

[But the US carbon credit market has already crashed]

Newcastle council quiet on jet-setting budget

CITY Hall has left out of its latest annual report what it costs ratepayers to send civic staff on overseas trips.
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The 2008-09 annual report released on Tuesday night shows that council representatives travelled overseas on three occasions, going to Kuala Lumpur, Seattle and Milan.

The purposes of the trips included attending conferences on auditing and climate change, and inspecting equipment for an exhibition in the new Newcastle Regional Museum.

Investigating Links Between Climate Change And AIDS | Gov Monitor

HIV and climate change are perceived as profoundly linked, a perception shared by a range of UN bodies, including UNAIDS and the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP.

Women Can Make Or Break Climate Change, Says UN Report – Talk Radio News Service

UNFPA’s Danielle Schensul added, “We have to think beyond population growth and on how we organize families. A divorce causes more emissions than a birth of a child.”

Hedegaard: Half an agreement is no agreement

While protesters outside the Copenhagen conference center fell over and played dead beside giant letters spelling "Delay Kills", Kim Carstensen, head of the WWF global climate initiative, voiced some optimism with regard to COP15:

"Reports this week that Copenhagen is as dead as a dodo were wildly exaggerated," he said.