Climate change a scare and a bore but worthy of serious thought | Courier Mail

Climate change has two dangerous traits – it is frightening AND boring. It's so frightening we're frozen to the spot. And it's so boring we'd rather watch Glee than spend any time trying to get our heads around what that last bloke in The Lodge called "the greatest moral challenge of our time".

Try this. Mention the words "carbon emissions trading scheme" at a barbecue and people will quickly change the subject to that little kid on Junior MasterChef with the hairstyle like a sucked mango. Sometimes it's amazing to think we are the superior, dominant species on this planet.

Climate change is a marketers' nightmare. We need that smart ad man who sits on the left on The Gruen Factor to sell it. How on earth do your dress up this alligator in sequins and take it out for a walk?

AFP: UN climate change body discusses reform in Busan

SEOUL — Hundreds of researchers at a UN global climate change body met in South Korea on Monday to discuss reform after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented the organisation's credibility.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) started a four-day session in the city of Busan with some 400 participants, including chairman Rajendra Pachauri and representatives and researchers from member countries, a Korea Meteorological Administration spokesman told AFP.

The agenda for the closed meeting includes renewable energy sources, how to manage natural disasters and recommendations to reform the IPCC, the administration said in a statement last week.

The American Spectator : California’s Green Nightmare

It's hard to know where the fairy tale of "green jobs" first came from. It was probably a clever marketing scheme by radical environmentalists who realized that their anti-growth climate change agenda wasn't going to sell among the American electorate if workers realized how many jobs would be eviscerated by the new taxes and regulation. So, from somewhere out of Madison Avenue or K Street, the left devised the green jobs story line: we can impose a $1 trillion new tax on the U.S. economy over the next decade, and it will save jobs, as hundreds of thousands of Americans begin assembling windmills and solar paneling.

If we want to see how green policies work in the real world, we don't have to look any further than America's left coast.

Physicists with pitchforks : Debra J. Saunders

Interesting. In his book, "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore asserted that 98 percent of scientists believe in global warming. Just last week, a Senate staffer told me that 99 percent of scientists share Gores' take. Then how could it be at more than a third of APS respondents aren't on board with the doomsday scenario -- even though all the money and prestige and political pressure are on the global-warming alarmist side?

The point here is: If you can't trust these guys to poll scientists accurately -- a pretty simple task -- why would you trust their climate models?