Face facts and adapt to warmer world

It might not seem like it, but climate sceptics and climate alarmists agree on a fair bit. One of the biggest flaws with both Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme and Tony Abbott's direct action plan isn't that they are great big taxes or climate con jobs. It's that they are futile.

Any Australian cut in carbon dioxide emissions is worthless if not part of a global effort. And right now it looks like the chances of a global agreement on serious emissions cuts are effectively nil. You don't have to be a sceptic or alarmist to understand a policy that can't achieve its goal is a failure before it starts.

[But if you really fear CO2 so much, is it wise to schedule so much fossil-fueled travel?]

In April 2010, Climate Wise Women from the South Pacific Islands, Uganda and Biloxi, Mississippi will begin a 30-city, 18-country speaking tour in the Americas. These community activists can't wait for politicians and governmental negotiators to get it right on climate change. They want straight talk on what climate change is doing to women, children, families and communities around the world. The tour continues to Asia / the Pacific in Fall 2010 and to Europe in Spring 2011.

CNN Weather Guy Chad Myers Accuses Climate Scientists Of Corruption

After admitting that “man has a lot to do with” the rising global temperatures, Myers went on the attack:

I also think it has something to do — follow the money a little bit. Meteorologists aren’t paid by the government, the ones on TV, the climatologists are. If there’s nothing to talk about, will their jobs really be all that secure? So, follow the money a little bit, I think you’ll find 10% and 15% and every little corner has to do with it.

Claim: Morocco to Solar-Power Nearly Half its Kingdom : CleanTechnica

The five plants are to be built sequentially, with the first one starting up in 2015, saving money right away, by beginning to cut Moroccan dependence on foreign oil and gas imports from nearby neighbors.
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Energy Minister Amina Benkhadra also appears undaunted. She promises: “This is a bold but realistic project. We will guarantee all the technical and financial resources to make it succeed.”

Cold Records Fall on 3 Islands - Hawaii Editorials - Starbulletin.com

Kahului Airport on Maui was downright chilly this morning where a 54-degree reading was recorded. The previous record was 57 degrees.

This morning's record low also was the lowest temperature ever recorded in April at Kahului.