With Elections Near, Australia's Rudd Backs Off Ambitious Carbon Trading Plan - TIME

Australia is not alone in its inability to come to an arrangement to slow climate change, but it's probably the most red-faced. "Post-Copenhagen, I don't think any world leader was as religiously zealous as Rudd on climate change," said McKibbin. "It looks absolutely ridiculous on the world's stage... the Prime Minister acknowledged it was too hard and shifted focus to something else, instead of trying to propose a better policy."

EU drops energy regulations that could have shut Drax | Business | The Guardian

Pressure from the British government and energy companies has encouraged the European Union to drop new regulations that could have led to the closure of Drax and other heavily polluting coal-fired power stations within six years.

Al Fin: Negative Climate Feedbacks Mock Carbon Hysteria

It is time to call a "time out" from the hysteria, and to begin an intensive program of data collection, correlation, and analysis. There is nothing moral or enlightened about being hoodwinked and bamboozled by criminals and opportunists.