Manning Up « Cruel Mistress

One of the first things that Mann could do, and maybe should do, is release other related e-mails that help to corroborate his case. It’s not that I care, particularly, to read his dirty laundry, but that some further release of e-mails would help establish that his are not post-facto justifications.

Stockley: Hot, flat, crowded and our fault | thenewsstar.com | The News Star

Too bad Eddie's sweater in Beck's children's book didn't transport him to the North Pole where he could see Santa's wonderland realistically transformed into a pile of slush while learning the true meaning of loving mankind is taking care of your environment.

Emissions trading scheme attacks Australia's national foundations | The Australian

Inadvertently Julia Gillard projected the unbelievable: how the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader this week joined hands to declare economic war on their own country.

That, plain and simple, is what Kevin Rudd and now also Malcolm Turnbull's Emissions Trading Scheme is. A direct attack on the foundation not just of our economy but of our very society and indeed modernity itself. Cheap and plentiful carbon-based power.

Such an attack would have been utterly unthinkable when we used to have grown-ups running the country. When we had a Treasury providing rational advice to government rather than worshipping at the altar of climate hysteria and endangered wombats.

Politics of Climategate threatens climate change conference in Copenhagen

Climategate should not prevent world leaders meeting in Copenhagen from reaching some legally binding international agreement on climate change.