Public support for Rudd's ETS collapses - Environment - NZ Herald News

CANBERRA - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's green credentials continue to take a hammering as he prepares for an election this year in which the environment will be a key issue.

Two new polls have confirmed that support for his major climate change policy - a greenhouse emissions trading scheme - is collapsing even as the Government tries for a third time to ram it through Parliament.

Saving climate does not require hairshirts for all

If we see with our own eyes that being eco-friendly is more fun than the alternative, what politician or corporate lobbyist can hope to persuade us otherwise?

Ed Miliband pleads for belief in climate change as fresh hole blown in claims - Scotsman.com News

Mr Miliband conceded the claims had been damaging and the IPCC had to reform some of its procedures in collecting data, but said they did not undermine the decades of climate research and the "overwhelming" majority of scientists agreed.  [how, exactly, does Ed know this?]

Himalayan Glacier ‘Error’ was Purposeful « Climate Scam

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

Snowmageddon: how America is battling a real cold war

The biggest winter snow storm since the 1920s paralysed several eastern US states at the weekend, closing airports and stopping traffic and leaving more than 200,000 households and businesses without power.

[If this home and car are so great, why are they "rent-free"?]: Rent-free smart home up for grabs

The search is on for a family to live in Australia's first ever smart home.

The three-bedroom home in Newington, in Sydney's west, comes with rooftop solar panels, a fuel cell that converts natural gas into electricity, water saving appliances, state-of-the-art lighting and a worm farm.

An electric car is an added bonus.

The NSW government wants a family to live in the house rent free for a year, while keeping a blog on the pros and cons of the home.