Editorial - Climate Change and the S.E.C. - NYTimes.com

At the same time, ordinary stockholders and state insurance regulators have begun expressing increasing [or decreasing] alarm about the potential cost of unchecked climate change for American businesses. The S.E.C. action is simply one more incentive for investors and managers to better understand the risks — and the opportunities — out there for publicly traded businesses.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: More Quiet Post-Publication Changes to the Stern Report

"In any academic publication changes to published text to correct errors or to clarify require the subsequent publication of a formal erratum or corrigendum.

"This is to ensure the integrity of the literature and a paper trail, otherwise confusion would result if past work could be quietly rewritten.

"Such a practice is very much a whitewash of the historical record.

"One would assume – and expect – that studies designed to inform government (and international) policy would be held to at least these same standards if not higher standards."

Climate bill: All cost, no benefit - JSOnline

It's common practice in politics to market legislation in a way that hides its true intent. The so-called Clean Energy Jobs Act, praised by a Journal Sentinel editorial on Jan. 17 is one of the most misnamed bills of all time.

PENNY WONG - Climate Change

[Wong]: But we shouldn't be surprised if Mr Abbott doesn't think that a four
degree temperature rise is a big deal because we know what he thinks
about climate change. In his own words Mr Abbott thinks that climate
change is "absolute crap". That's what he thinks about it. And when Mr
Abbott puts his policy out next week, we will know two things about
that policy. It's been put forward by a man who's happy to let
Australia risk a four degree temperature rise - a man who is happy to
risk that kind of temperature rise - and a man who thinks that climate
change is "absolute crap". Happy to take questions.

JOURNALIST: It'll also carry some significantly less tax, according to
Mr Abbott.