Is a “utility-only” cap-and-trade bill worth passing? | Grist

There are, believe it or not, a few liberal senators fighting to keep carbon limits in the bill, but the bulk of "centrist" opinion at this point seems to be for throwing the climate provisions overboard and going with the more politically expedient "energy-only" option.
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Then again, utilities have been involved in a cap-and-trade program for 15 years (for acid rain pollutants) and they've always been amendable to carbon cap-and-trade as long as coal is protected and the EPA is blocked from regulating CO2 (both of which, unfortunately, have been accomplished in previous negotiations). There's reason to think they could be brought on board for this. And there's reason to think exempting manufacturers might harvest a few midwestern votes.

Perhaps cap-and-trade for utilities is where the downward slide of this bill will finally stop. Or maybe it's just another way station on the road to total capitulation, the preferred destination of the Senate's "moderates." We'll know much more after the meeting on Wed.

10:10 campaigners push to keep summer time all year round | Environment | The Guardian

Parliament today hears evidence from Cambridge academic Dr Elizabeth Garnsey that not putting clocks back will save carbon emissions and lives

The Climate Sceptics Party Blog (AEC Registered): CSIRO acting like the KGB

Last week, a former public servant Colin Ely was evicted by Police from a Melbourne meeting because he would ask questions of CSIRO speaker Paul Holper for conclusive evidence for carbon dioxide causing Global warming.

Vegetative Response to Climate Change: Celebrate, Don’t Fret — MasterResource

I am not saying that there aren’t some negatives for some species when the climate changes. Of course there are. But what I am saying is that there are plenty of positives as well. And it takes no more imagination to come up with positives than it does for negatives.