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Why is the 'greenest government ever' slashing environmental bodies instead of pursuing tax avoiders to raise funds?
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DECC alone has had to find cuts of £85m from the budgets of the Carbon Trust, Energy Saving Trust, and offshore wind and geothermal energy projects.

Checking the geologic time clock on climate change

The retreat of the ice was not started by fossil-fuel emissions. True, they contribute to the speed of the present great thaw, but they were not and are not its cause. It's been going on for a few million years and I suggest that before you sell the car and virtuously cancel all future travel involving the use of fossil fuel, you grab a copy of the summer edition of The American Scholar magazine and read professor Robert B. Laughlin's take on global warming, fossil fuels and the geologic time clock. A voice to respect, Laughlin comes well qualified on matters geologic. A professor of physics at Stanford University, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize for physics.

Quadrant Online - Least-worst climate policy?

[Dr Jennifer Marohasy] In summary, as we approach this important 2010 Australian federal election, neither of our major political parties have any serious policies to address the threat that they perceive from human-caused global warming – at least not any tangible policies likely to ever be implemented – and this could perhaps turn out to be a very good thing.