I'm dreaming of a white... summer? Snowstorms leave drivers stranded, with more wintry weather to come | Mail Online

Britain will have to wait a bit longer for spring - never mind the predicted barbecue summer - as the return of the big freeze brought travel disruption to some parts of the country today.

Ten lorries were stranded on a motorway overnight after snow storms swept across Scotland leaving a three-inch blanket of the white stuff - two days after the start of British Summer Time.

Patterico's Pontifications » Global Warming vs Democracy

Lovelock believes democracy won’t work when it comes to big problems because people are too stupid to understand the problems or the solutions. I disagree. People will buy big ideas, but global warming advocates don’t have the facts to sell their claims.

Sometimes scientists are like salesmen: They blame the buyer when it’s the product that doesn’t work.

[From Australia]: The greatest moral conundrum of our time … until the next one

Last year, we were told, the most important issue for the country - for the planet - was greenhouse gas emissions. This meant the Senate had to pass the government's carbon pollution reduction scheme.

It was so urgent it had to be legislated before the end of the year, and before the summit in Copenhagen.
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Now the legislation has become less important than getting 30 per cent of the GST from the states so the government can rearrange financing in the hospital system. Can a momentous moral challenge fizzle out like this? Or are you beginning to suspect all the crisis was politically driven?

[How timely!]: Launch of new “green” executive search firm

The shares of Climate Human Capital (CHC) have today (30 March 2010) commenced trading on the PLUS Markets.

The directors believe that their firm is the world’s first publicly traded, climate change focused executive search firm; the first internationally focused listed executive search firm operating exclusively in this space; and the first traded executive search firm in the climate change space to seed a range of complementary business units both inside and outside the recruitment services sector.