Govt admits climate debate has changed | News | Business Spectator

"The debate may have changed a bit," said Junior climate change minister Greg Combet, who agreed the summit did not deliver what Australia or other countries would have liked.
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"What emerged from Copenhagen was the fact that most countries are... not going to engage in go-it-alone schemes," he told ABC Radio on Wednesday.
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An Abbott government would allow industry to emit emissions on a "business as usual" basis without penalty but fine those who exceed baseline levels.

When asked what penalties might be imposed, Mr Abbott said: "We'll talk to industry about that."
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Mr Abbott accused Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of trying to delay question time because he was "rattled" by the new-look opposition.

"I think he's showing signs of being rattled, I think he realises the fiasco at Copenhagen has completely derailed his climate change policy ... and he has no Plan B," Mr Abbott told reporters.

GREENIE WATCH

[THE SO-CALLED "OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE"; Norm Kalmanovitch] The Hadley CRU record shows that the Earth cooled from about 1880 to 1910 as CO2 emissions first started to increase from industrial activity, adding another thirty years to the time when the correlation of CO2 emissions and global warming was not valid. In essence the so called "overwhelming evidence" that global warming is caused by CO2 emissions from fossil fuels has no basis in reality, as there was no correlation of emissions with global warming from 1880 to 1975, and only correlation for 13 years from 1975 to 1988 when this correlation formed the basis for the forcing parameter of the climate models which projected catastrophic global warming from the increasing CO2 emissions.

This is the sum total of the "overwhelming evidence" that has created the Kyoto Protocol with its economically destructive initiatives, that are not only killing the economy but killing people as their food is being converted to biofuels for carbon credits as part of these Kyoto Initiatives.

All that was needed to prevent this calamity was for the peer review committee to demand verification for the derivation of the forcing parameter used in the climate models before allowing publication in 1988. Without this single article published in the Journal of Geophysical Research global warming would never have become an issue and the IPCC would never have been formed.
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[WHY IT MAY BE CRUCIAL TO STOP LOOKING AT CARBON DIOXIDE AS PUBLIC ENEMY #1;  Pierre Jutras] The deep geological record is quite clear: the global ecosystem thrives when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are high, and suffers when they are low.

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global warming is going to happen two days before the day after tomorrow, oh my god, thats today

Predatory jumbo flying squid invade California waters [trace amounts of Co2 blamed] | MNN - Mother Nature Network

More than 1,000 Jumbo flying squid have been landed since Thursday night last week, prompting concerns that this season's rising ocean temperatures due to the El Niño effect could lead to a squid invasion unparalleled for nearly a decade.
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Experts believe, however, that these squid are particularly well adapted to a warming climate. As climate change strengthens and offshore ocean habitats continue to struggle with oxygen-minimal "dead zones", they are likely to become an increasingly common visitor to California's coastal waters, and fishermen will have to continue coping.