EU Should Keep Offer For 30%-Emissions Cut-UK Climate Min - WSJ.com

SEVILLE, Spain (Dow Jones)--The European Union should stick to its offer to increase its target for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions if other countries come up with similarly ambitious targets, U.K. Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt said Friday.

Abbott 'walking away' from climate change policy - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The New South Wales Environment Minister, Frank Sartor, says Mr Abbott has not thought through his plan to recruit thousands for a 'green army'.

Mr Abbott has released two new environmental policies, including spending $750 million-a-year to recruit 15,000 people to work on environmental projects.

But Frank Sartor says there are already thousands of employees and volunteers working with the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Services on environmental projects.

Professional Discourtesy By The National Climate Data Center On The Menne Et Al 2010 paper « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

This failure by NCDC to honor professional standards is just another example of the lack of accepted professional standards at this federal climate laboratory.

Botanics warn of casualties after cold snap - Edinburgh Evening News

Nursery supervisor Pete Brownless said: "Unfortunately, the Botanics are exactly like everyone else – we'll have costly heating bills and damaged paving thanks to the weather, but we'll also have lots of dead plants."

Mr Brownless and his team are hoping for a warm summer to allow many plants a good chance of recovery.

Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: Climategate Stimulus Grant Covered by Fox, Limbaugh, Many Others

Our press release revealing that over half a million dollars in federal stimulus money is funding the work of a key Climategate scientist, Penn State's Michael Mann, has been receiving a lot of attention.

Thinking Green--The New Religion

...the intellectual elites are not so secular as they believe themselves to be. As it happens, their religion may not be theistic, but it is a religion all the same.

That fact is confirmed in a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Stephen T. Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, argues that the new religion of many secular folk is ecology. As Asma explains, many secular types suffer from "green guilt."