Garnaut behind controversial PNG mines | Herald Sun

CLIMATE-change expert Ross Garnaut is linked with two companies accused of using a controversial method of releasing mine waste into rivers and the ocean in Papua New Guinea.

Professor Garnaut conducted the Rudd government's 2008 climate-change review which urged action on the issue, including an emissions trading scheme.

EU carbon scheme may cause refinery closures -lobby | Energy & Oil | Reuters

PARIS, Sept 9 (Reuters) - More European refineries may close after 2013 when the sector will have to buy carbon dioxide permits, which it now gets for free, to cover a third of its CO2 emissions, France's petroleum industry body UFIP said on Thursday.

Jean-Louis Schilansky, the head of UFIP, said refiners had asked the European Commission to push back the date at which they will have to buy permits to 2020 instead of 2013 as the industry needed to invest to improve the efficiency of plants.

Comments On The Greenhouse Effect By Herman and Pielke Part III « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Thus the final result is that the addition of an IR absorbing gas in to the atmosphere, results in a warming of the surface, and subsequently the lower levels of the atmosphere. The important remaining question, of course, is how much is this warming effect and in our opinion, this has not yet been satisfactorily answered.