Sky News: ACCI report says no carbon tax

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry have released reports stating that 75 per cent of business owners don't support a carbon tax.

Most opposed was starting an ETS or carbon tax in advance of other major emitting nations.

The survey also found energy costs were the most significant infrastructure concern.

Carbon tax is economic self-harm: Abbott

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is sticking to his guns that he will "never" endorse Australia going it alone by putting a price on carbon, a stance supported by a new business survey.

New leaders feel the heat on a costly climate conundrum

Last time round, the attempt to price carbon was central to the fall of three leaders, one of them a prime minister. Even if it doesn't take a scalp this time, there is going to be a great deal of pain again, and still no guarantee of a satisfactory outcome.

A Global-Warming Primer

Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam, by Brian Sussman, Washington, D.C.: World Net Daily, 2010, 224 pages, hardcover.

Gideons International should obtain rights to this title and place a copy in every hotel room in the United States. It is a veritable bible arming readers with information they need to refute the claims of environmentalists that humans can adversely influence climate.

How Can We De-Politicize Climate Change? : TreeHugger

At the moment, much of this has to do with the fact that the hard-right Tea Party -- the group that is currently galvanizing conservative voters to head to the polls -- is deeply skeptical of climate change, and is forcing conservative politics to adapt accordingly. Not all of those in this group believes climate change is a hoax (though some certainly do), but just about all agree that governmental regulation is not the answer. It was a recurring phenomenon this primary season: If a conservative hoped to appeal to the base, he or she would have to attack climate policy. But even before the Tea Party became a national political force to be reckoned with, conservatives were generally uneasy (to put it lightly) with climate change -- due largely to the solutions government was able to come up with to address it.
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Nobody -- not individuals, not car-owners, not fossil fuel execs, nobody
-- wants to change their behavior on the recommendation of a seemingly
obfuscated scientific theory. I, for one, don't.