New German/Russian Temperature Reconstruction Shows No Correlation With CO2 « P Gosselin – NoTricksZone

A new temperature reconstruction carried out by a team of German/Russian scientists has yielded interesting results. It finds no correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the temperature in the Arctic regions studied over the last 400 years.

ABC The Drum Unleashed - Adaptation the best climate change policy

We all know climate change was a major issue in the 2007 election. So much so that both Labor and the Coalition pledged to implement an emissions trading scheme in order to reduce the nation's carbon footprint. But those days are over: Copenhagen, the GFC, Tony Abbott's rise, climate-gate and glacier-gate have changed the politics of global warming.

In 2010, although the media has dedicated much time and interest to both Labor and the Coalition's climate platforms, the issue itself is not an overriding priority for the broad cross-section of the electorate. The idea of paying substantially higher energy prices when the rest of the world is doing very little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is hardly a voter winner, especially in those marginal seats where voters are mortgaged to the hilt. No wonder neither Julia Gillard nor Tony Abbott are campaigning on an economy-wide cap-and-trade scheme.

Western Canada - Frost now top concern

Growers across the prairie region are nervous about their crops. Seeding delays and a cool spring have pushed back development in all three prairie provinces, exposing the crops to a higher-than-usual risk of fall frost damage.
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Brook said under the worst circumstances there could be massive downgrading of crops if the frost was early and widespread.

A severe Aug. 20, 2004, frost caused the downgrading of about one-third of that year’s canola crop. The discount on that 2.9 million tonnes of canola would have cost growers an estimated $49 million that year.