My Top 10 Annoyances in the Climate Change Debate « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

9. The claim that the IPCC is unbiased. The IPCC was formed for the explicit purpose of building the case for global warming being our fault, not for investigating the possibility that it is just part of a natural cycle in the climate system. Their accomplices in government have bought off the scientific community for the purpose of achieving specific policy goals.

10. The claim that reducing CO2 emissions is the right thing to do anyway. Oh, really? What if life on Earth (which requires CO2 for its existence) is actually benefiting from more CO2? Nature is always changing anyway…why must we always assume that every single change that humans cause is necessarily a bad thing? Even though virtually all Earth scientists believe this, too, it is not science, but religion. I’m all for religion…but not when it masquerades as science.

Climate change will hit Africa hardest | Meles Zenawi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Africa will not only be hit hardest, but it will be hit first. Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us. The current drought covering much of east Africa – far more severe than past droughts – has been directly associated with climate change.

Flashback: Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa - NYTimes.com

For at least 3,000 years, a drumbeat of potent droughts, far longer and more severe than any experienced recently, have seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa that is now home to tens of millions of the world’s poorest people, climate researchers report in a new study.

The last such drought, persisting more than three centuries, ended around 1750, the research team writes in the April 17 issue of the journal Science.

Climate change [fraud is allegedly] cool on streets where Liberals labour

''It's cool to believe in climate change,'' said 21-year-old Rosemary Sasse. ''If you don't - who are you, what are you doing here? You're not knowledgeable about anything; you're an ignorant person.''

Ms Sasse's views crystallise the conundrum facing the federal Liberal Party. Climate change sceptics are ''nobodies'' in the eyes of young people but they are definite ''somebodies'' among more seasoned Liberal voters.