Green Left Weekly: The case for ecosocialism | Australian Climate Madness

That the article quotes Hugo Chavez tells you all you need to know. But I think it is important for sceptics on the other side of the climate debate to understand where the true aim of "climate action" really lies. As the scientific consensus crumbles, the extremist environmental minority (as represented by publications such as Green Left Weekly) will see their dream of global socialism disappear, but they won't let it go without a fight. So expect more alarmism and more hysteria (and worse) as they desperately cling to the sinking ship.

Merciless pirates of disaster run amok | The Daily Telegraph

One company alone, Insurance Australia Group, the owners of NRMA, increased rates to cover an expected $166 million in payouts for "natural peril" claims. As Carswell reported, however, payouts fell $45 million short of that sum.

Why? Because catastrophic climate change events didn't happen. Therefore, that $45 million became profit.

Insurers Suncorp-Metway, QBE and Allianz also enjoyed similarly massive payoffs thanks to climate change's no-show. You've got to hand it to them; in the middle of a global financial crisis, these businesses turned nothing into gold.
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And if you think insurance is where is ends, consider where your taxes are going.

In Britain, a report recently found that the Government's taxpayer-financed Climate Challenge Fund had spent nearly $A16 million on idiotic stunts intended to alert citizens about global warming and the like.

Not only were these stunts stupid, they didn't work. Public opinion in the UK, as everywhere else, is trending against climate change alarmism.

The same capers are under way here, beginning with the Department of Climate Change. Your money is being stolen by artists of the con variety.

CPRS Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme could attract fraudsters | The Courier-Mail

THE Australian Federal Police has warned the Rudd Government that the criminal underworld could target an emissions trading scheme.

Barn collapse in Madison County traps cattle inside

Fenner, NY -- The accumulation of wet snow collapsed a section of a dairy barn this evening in the Madison County town of Fenner, trapping 50 to 60 cattle inside.