Humbug In Hobart « Musings from the Chiefio

It looks to me like we have a falling trend in Hobart, but that at the airport the Airport Heat Island can overcome it, especially during winter.

French feathers ruffled over wind farming dispute | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 06.04.2010

In Picardy, a sparsely populated region of northern France and home to 600 wind turbines, resident Virginie Mitburst can see 11 from her home.

"This room has the pleasure of being lit up every night by the lights flashing on the wind turbines," Mitburst told French public radio. "It's like a night club in here."

Mitburst said she thinks wind farm companies played on people's fears to push the concept of wind power, which she says have turned the countryside into an industrial zone.

"The wind power companies come round telling people they have to have these things because of the Kyoto agreement… and if we don't have wind turbines we're all going to die," Mitburst said.

Prime minister announces election date | ABTN

The Chancellor's failure to address air passenger duty in the recent budget left many in the industry angry.

A majority consider APD to be a stealth tax which was brought in to exploit the travel and aviation sectors when climate change prevention started to command political currency.

Democrats consider big gamble on global warming plan | Washington Examiner

Moreno [sic], who now runs the Web site Climate Depot, said Democrats may decide it is "now or never" for a climate bill.

"If they fail this year to get any kind of cap and trade system in place, they are looking at years into the political wilderness when it comes to addressing global warming," Moreno [sic] said. "We are talking about at least four to eight years before they have another real shot at passing this."

New Health Care Reforms Could Lead to Surge in Greenhouse Gas Emissions…or Not : CleanTechnica

President Obama’s new health care reforms will help millions more people in the U.S. get access to modern medical care and preventive health services, just like every other country in the developed world. All things being equal, that would lead to a rapid surge in greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the health care industry, which is already notorious for its resource-gobbling ways. However, things never are actually equal.

Malcolm Turnbull to quit politics

He lost his leadership because he supported an emissions trading scheme to tackle climate change.