Householders given $50 for non-existent green audits | The Australian

Opposition climate spokesman Greg Hunt said the $50 payments were "another green fraud". "It's the pink batts sham all over again," he said. "Magically, the cheque is in the mail just in time for the election."

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, A Wilted Senate on a Heating Planet | TomDispatch

Step one involves actually talking about global warming. For years now, the accepted wisdom in the best green circles was: talk about anything else -- energy independence, oil security, beating the Chinese to renewable technology. I was at a session convened by the White House early in the Obama administration where some polling guru solemnly explained that “green jobs” polled better than “cutting carbon.”

No, really? In the end, though, all these focus-group favorites are secondary. The task at hand is keeping the planet from melting.
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Mostly, we need to tell the truth, resolutely and constantly. Fossil fuel is wrecking the one earth we’ve got. It’s not going to go away because we ask politely. If we want a world that works, we’re going to have to raise our voices.

Matt Patterson: Environmentalism rests on false premise | Washington Examiner

And yet environmentalists would have us believe that the Earth cannot handle the recent, paltry carbon production of homo sapiens. Or that humanity, having adapted countless times as our planet warmed and cooled over the millennia, would somehow be unable to cope with a slightly warmer average temperature.

Madness, that way lies. The madness of wrecking our economy in pursuit of some fictitious, perfect global temperature.

Climate [scam] deal loopholes 'make farce' of rich nations' pledges | Environment | guardian.co.uk

New research reveals carbon emissions from rich nations could actually rise under loopholes in the proposed UN climate deal