Gillard finally finds a use for Rudd’s 2020 Summit | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Julia Gillard’s idea to pluck 150 people randomly off the streets to decide on the future of a huge tax on our emissions is so bizarre that you wonder from what mad place she borrowed it.

Gillard feels the greenshirts’ lash | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

What is it with the Left and the distinctive inability of so many to have a respectful, adult debate? Why the totalitarian instinct to shout down others, to threaten violence and to harass ideological enemies in their daily business?
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Imagine how a society run by greenshirts would deal with dissenters.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: UN climate talks in the mire?

As I've mentioned before, the mood and tone within the UN process has shifted a vast distance since the run-up to December's Copenhagen summit.

You could say it's now much more in tune with the political realities than the ebullient trumpeting of seismic global optimism that characterised the arrival of delegates into the snowy Danish capital.

C3: 13,000 Year Study Reveals Severe Weather Associated With Natural Solar & Ocean Oscillations, Not CO2

Researchers using lake sediment cores determine that severe weather for the northeastern United States has followed a cyclical pattern with a 3,000 year gap between each peak. The latest severe weather period began some 600 years ago with onset of the Little Ice Age. The major forces driving this natural cycle are thought to be solar changes, along with changes in the Atlantic Oscillation (AO).

Atmospheric CO2 levels are not even considered to be an influence on this natural cycle of storminess.