Got Environmental Problems? Think Government. - Reason Magazine

...by placing lots of promising onshore domestic petroleum resources off limits to exploration and production, Congress encouraged oil companies to make riskier endeavors offshore.

Federal Election 2010 | Garrett slams Libs' climate change cuts | News | Business Spectator

Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett says the Opposition's plan to axe climate change programs is "scandalous".

But Mr Garrett has declined to say whether he is helping form the Government's election climate change policy, or when it will be announced.

US Ambassador talks up carbon [dioxide scam] | News | Business Spectator

The US ambassador to Australia has spoken of the need to resist delay on action on climate change - and the benefits of a carbon price - as the issue heats up on the Australian election campaign.
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US ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich said a major challenge for the world was "resisting delay" on actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

He pledged the US would introduce a price on carbon, either through an emissions trading scheme (ETS), a carbon tax, or regulations.

"There's one thing clear, and that is in the United States, one way or another, we're going to find a price for carbon," Mr Bleich told a conference of young scientists from around the world at a Canberra space observatory.
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Speaking to reporters after the speech, Mr Bleich said the US was "fully committed" to its pledge to help fund fast-start financing for poor countries to tackle climate change, a key part of negotiations on a global climate deal.

University group receives special $50,000 [carbon dioxide hoax promotion] grant

A climate change awareness group at Vancouver Island University has been awarded a $50,000 grant to help step up their efforts to educate others about the science of climate change.
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ACER was formed two years ago by students and faculty working in the Applied Environmental Research Lab at the Nanaimo campus. Under Dr. Erik Krogh the group developed a 60-minute presentation explaining the science of climate change for Grade 10 students and began delivering it in high schools.

Exclusive: The Climate Caper book excerpt: 'The science behind the issue, was irrelevant even before the so-called 'IPCC process' got off the ground' | Climate Depot

The greenhouse global-warming issue has run much faster and further than a lot of scientists expected two decades ago when the first report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the IPCC for short—was being written. Normally there is a cycle of public and scientific interest in environmental issues, and we guessed at the time that the concern with global warming was already past its peak. The point we all missed was that the global warming issue could be manipulated into the ultimate example of the politically correct. The need to do something about the problem plays to the agendas of virtually all branches of modern social activism.
Suffice it to say that the science behind the issue, and particularly the uncertainty of the science behind the issue, was irrelevant even before the so-called 'IPCC process' got off the ground.