RFA takes VP Gore to task over new book

Bob Dinneen, President of the Renewable Fuels Association, took Vice President Al Gore to task this week over what it sees as the inaccuracies about biofuels in his new book, 'Our Choice'. In the book Vice President Gore expresses his "disappointment” over the progress of ethanol in the past 30 years.

Why Kyoto, symbol of climate-change fight, wants to cut trees

Over 70 per cent of Kyoto’s area is privately-owned forests. But with the current emphasis on protecting the environment, and with little protection against the influx of cheap foreign wood, local businesses of logging and crafting the delicate, sand-coloured Kitayamasuki — Japanese cedar — are getting strangled.

Ironically, this is also leading to a rise in ‘wood mileage’ — an increase in the carbon footprint and resource load of the wood that has to travel long distances to reach Japan. According to estimates by the local administration, one cubic metre of foreign wood used in Kyoto emits 150 kg of carbon dioxide.

The global warming brigade in a minority

The one thing that the Times article highlights is that the manmade global warming brigade is wrong again when it says that I and others are in a minority with our views — it is they who are in the minority, despite all the favourable propaganda they get.

In denial of an inconvenient truth | Local Voices from Northern Rivers, Australia | Northern Rivers Echo

The most depressing statistic of modern times is the one that tells us that well over 50 per cent of adult Americans do not believe in evolution.

Or at least it was until last week, when Senator Nick Minchin, the Liberal leader in the Senate, told Four Corners that a majority of his party room did not accept the reality of man-made climate change.

At least the Americans – well, some of them, anyway – have an excuse for their ignorance and perversity. In a great many places education standards are low and the general environment is bigoted and provincial.