Friday, November 27, 2009

Pitchfork revolt punctures the carbon bubble | The Australian
THE Rudd-Turnbull greenhouse gas emissions deal is supposed to give business the certainty it needs to pour billions of dollars into transforming Australia into a low-carbon economy. But, like the conservative political revolt it has triggered, the course of Australia's biggest policy upheaval in a generation is anything but certain.
Copenhagen's 14 billion tonne bet | The Australian
...if we want to limit warming to 2C -- a broadly accepted international goal -- we need to reduce global 2020 annual emissions to 44 gigatonnes, according to research by the non-profit Climate Works Foundation.
For now, the farce continues: Global Warming Hearing with Sir Paul McCartney and Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri 
The European Parliament will host a major event on global warming and food policy on Thursday 3 December when the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri and environmental activist Sir Paul McCartney will urge legislators and experts to focus on what an individual can do to fight climate change, for example by eating less meat.
Evolution News & Views: 'Consensus Science' is to Science as Money-Laundering is to Finance.
Invocation of 'consensus science' is merely a tactic to insulate bad science from scrutiny. 'Consensus science' is to science as money-laundering is to finance.

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