The Worst Ethics Scandal on Capitol Hill? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Donald Brown, the ethics professor at Pennsylvania State University who runs the ever-interesting Climate Ethics blog, has posted a provocative piece positing that the recent flurry of ethics investigations in Congress has missed the biggest lapse — failure to put responsibility ahead of politics and meaningfully address global warming.

Survey reveals pollies' climate change confusion - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The University of Queensland (UQ) survey of more than 300 federal, state and local government politicians found that nearly 70 per cent believed human-induced climate change is happening and rated it as one of Australia's most important challenges.

But more than 40 per cent of those questioned said they believed it would be safe for the planet to warm by 4 degrees Celsius, despite scientific warnings that a global temperature increase of 2 degrees or more could be dangerous.
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Only 56 per cent of surveyed politicians trust the world's leading climate science body, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC, although nearly 70 per cent said they were greatly influenced by what scientists say.
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Only 18 per cent of federal politicians responded to the survey.