Department of Hot Air costing $90 million | The Daily Telegraph

TAXPAYERS will fork out $90 million a year to keep more than 400 public servants employed within the federal Climate Change Department - despite most now having nothing to do until 2013.

More than 60 of them are classified as senior executive staff on salaries between $168,000 and $298,000 a year. Their salary bill alone will cost an estimated $12 million every year.

A further $8 million will also be paid in rent for plush offices at Canberra's Constitution Place until 2012, where it is believed 500 new computers will be delivered this week.

Paul H. Rubin: Environmentalism as Religion - WSJ.com

While people have worshipped many things, we may be the first to build shrines to garbage.
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Many observers have made the point that environmentalism is eerily close to a religious belief system, since it includes creation stories and ideas of original sin. But there is another sense in which environmentalism is becoming more and more like a religion: It provides its adherents with an identity.

Global Cooling until 2030 by Girma Orssengo, B. Tech, MASc, PhD | Climate Realists

As shown in the chart above, if the global mean temperature cycle behaves the way it behaved for the last 130 years, there will be global cooling until 2030. In contrast, the IPCC projections that started its divergence away from observed temperature about 2005 will continue its imaginary trajectory towards its exaggerated target temperature.

Can Global Warming Give You Kidney Stones? - The Climate Report - The Atlantic

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that kidney stones could increase by 30 percent or more in some areas of the US, due to dehydration. That would cost the US health care system more than $1 billion per year.

If this is true, should we try to make it cooler outside for our grandchildren by not using our fossil-fueled air conditioners on very hot days?