[Another paper confuses correlation with causation?]: Google searches for ‘global warming’ go down when unemployment rises | Grist

We find that an increase in a state's unemployment rate decreases Google searches for "global warming" and increases searches for "unemployment," and that the effect differs according to a state's political ideology.

From national surveys, we find that an increase in a state's unemployment rate is associated with a decrease in the probability that residents think global warming is happening and reduced support for the U.S to target policies intended to mitigate global warming.

NPR Asks If Conservative Christians Are Selling Out Their Savior to Rush Limbaugh and the Right Wing | NewsBusters.org

The liberal Gross naturally, reflexively equated the “climate change” lobby with “science,” and wondered why Cizik has no “disagreements” with science

Dennis T. Avery | Is America's west doomed to drought?

Burgman finds the earth has had much more severe droughts during its natural cycles than we've seen recently—including two century-long droughts in California between 900 and 1200 AD.

Will $8-a-gallon gasoline and quintupled electric bills stave off the droughts and crop failures? Probably not. The correlation between our thermometer record and CO2 is weak—only 22 percent. The correlation with the sunspot index is a powerful 79 percent. That says giving up fossil fuels will do no more to change the climate than did the Aztecs sacrificing thousands of human victims on the alters of their weather gods. This time, the human sacrifice might be in the millions.

PM kept cabinet in dark on climate - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock & Land

JULIA Gillard failed to consult cabinet about her ­decision to hold a citizens' assembly on climate change – a fresh setback for ­Labor as it attempts to increase voter ­focus on Tony Abbott as new opinion polls suggest a Coalition victory.
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The revelations appear to contradict the pledge Ms Gillard made when she ­became Prime Minister that she would restore cabinet's position as the government's key policy decision-making body.