[Fraudster suggests that an Arctic oil spill would cause bad weather in Topeka?]

A major oil spill in the Beaufort Sea could have a "catastrophic" impact on Canada's Arctic ecosystem and worsen the effects of climate change, a former senior government scientist has warned.

William Adams, a former scientist at Environment Canada, was one of the researchers in a joint government-industry study of the impact of an oil spill in the Canadian portion of the Beaufort Sea. The Beaufort Sea Project, which began in 1976 and lasted nearly a decade, remains the only "comprehensive" study of its kind, says Adams.

Flannery 'feels betrayed' by Rudd on climate | theage.com.au

PROMINENT scientist Tim Flannery has said he is unlikely to vote for Labor again after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's ''profound betrayal of trust'' on climate change.

It came as the head of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Martin Parkinson, conceded bureaucrats were ''terribly, terribly disappointed'' and caught by surprise by the decision to shelve the emissions scheme.

Climate kamikaze | The Spectator

Reading today's cover story in The Times, the lesson the eco-friendly EU Commission seems to have drawn from this experience is that 20 percent emission cuts were not enough; the EU has to put sharper emissions cuts on the table "to inspire other countries to follow suit".

Really? That strikes me as the most naïve kind of thinking. Worse still, it is costly naivety given the likely £33 billion price tag.

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