Tonedeaf: SEC requires Climate Change Warning Label on Stock › 2.0: The Blogmocracy

What I find especially weird about this is the timing. Right at the time when Toto pulls the curtain back and exposes the little humbug at the controls, they require companies to disclose their “Wizard of Oz” risk. That alone, in my mind, would be good reason to simply tell the stockholders that there’s no credible risk, either physically, or in terms of regulation.

Winter Weather - Yahoo! News Photos

The snow is piled up in front of the West Wing of the White House in Washington Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Mid-Atlantic residents were buried by a blizzard that the president jokingly called 'Snowmageddon.'

July '09: Obama Considering Solar Panels For White House | NEWS JUNKIE POST

At a press conference on Thursday, President Barack Obama was asked by a reporter if he was considering adding a “wind turbine” or solar panels to the White House. The president had been meeting with CEO’s from energy companies during the afternoon to discuss their projects for building clean technology.

“I was just talking to Secretary Chu about how he is going to consult with these outstanding folks to figure out how we can improve energy efficiency here,” Obama answered.

The reporter pressed on and asked when such a plan would happen. “I just told you — we’re moving. Come on, guys…I don’t have a date certain,” Obama replied as he left the podium. [He's been in office for a year now--is he or is he not going to do this?]

Express.co.uk - £8bn BBC eco-bias

STRIKING parallels between the BBC’s coverage of the global warming debate and the activities of its pension fund can be revealed today.

How on earth can Rudd bet our economy on this? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

What a fiasco. And for this we must have a huge green tax on everything, and shut down our sources of cheap power. To risk so much on such disintegrating evidence is grotesquely irresponsible.

Slattsnews » More bunkum

Viewing Insiders this morning, you had to marvel at how much the political debate on manmade global warming has changed in a couple of months.
Bolta demanded, and got, his say, Cassidy took the middle road and the Fairfax hack steered clear of climate discussion. Only The Australian’s resident warmenista, Lenore Taylor, held the increasingly discredited faith. However, at times Taylor looked ready to burst into tears as the true believers copped the mockery they so richly deserve.

Climate Resistance » Africagate – Worse than Previously Thought

Africagate shows how the poor in less industrial countries are used for political ends. The emergence of this “gate”, lilke “Glaciergate” should not be used simply to win the political war with those attaching themselves to climate institutions, such as the IPCC. Instead, the collapsing credibility of climate alarmism, and rank, anti-human pessimism should be used to make a positive case for development, in the third world, in the emerging economies, and here in the “developed” West. There needs to be a real discussion about why poverty exists in the world, and how it can be abolished. Sceptics need to replace the climate story with a much, much better one.

The Dog Ate my Data: BBC on Australia's shifting Climate Politics

I see this amongst my own "associates". Twelve months ago non belief in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) resulted in barely concealed sneers. Such strong opinions on science from people who couldn't plot a simple regression line if their lives depended upon it I must admit surprised me at first. Now a skeptical position receives either open support in the majority of cases or at least a considered hearing. Interestingly the most vocal supporter of climate change that I personally know (who has gone strangely quiet in recent months) also strongly believes the moon landings were faked by NASA and yet has no difficulty in basing their own belief in CAGW on "the science" - none of which they have actually read.

I still find it amazing just how quickly public opinion is shifting.
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...why would you compensate people when the whole point is to change behaviour by placing a price signal on carbon for heaven’s sake. Compensating consumers distorts the very signal one is trying to produce!