Brazil legislates nearly 40% CO2 cuts by 2020 | Australian Climate Madness

Oops! Somebody forgot to tell the Brazilian delegation that the Copenhagen Accord isn't binding! Just as the world is moving away from carbon taxes and cap 'n' trade, the nutty Brazilians have followed through with their half-baked promises and actually enacted carbon cutting legislation that will kill their economy stone dead, and send even more of their desperately poor population into even deeper poverty. Anyway, when you read the fine print, it's all hot air and exclusions

EU Referendum: Great minds?

The Foreign Policy magazine ranks the "top 100 global thinkers" of the year, putting Rajendra Pachauri in fifth place – for ending the debate over whether climate change matters.

He beats Bill and Hillary Clinton, who share sixth place. President Obama is placed second – which really tells you all you need to know.

C3: Multiple Antarctica Peer-Reviewed Studies Confirm Sea Ice Growth Over Decades; Scientists Befuddled Why Climate Models Are Wrong

As with most other climate predictions though, over the last several decades the CO2-based climate models have been spectacularly wrong regarding the South Pole. Actual peer-reviewed research based on empirical evidence confirms this.

Oil Trades Near $79 as Heating Oil Climbs on Forecast for Cold - Bloomberg.com

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil traded near $79 a barrel after rising for a fifth day on forecasts for cold weather in the U.S. and signs the economy in the world’s largest energy- consuming nation may be recovering.

John Gummer to quit as MP to focus on international climate change [hoax] campaign | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Former Tory cabinet minister announces he is to step down at the election in order to play a leading role in a pan-European campaign to tackle global warming