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Jakarta, October 3 - Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, otherwise known as REDD, offers vast potential for companies, developing nations and native forests. But its viability is threatened by the absence of a liquid market and a clear signal by policymakers on how REDD would be funded.

The Reference Frame: RSS: September 2010 coolest month of the year so far

RSS AMSU have released their global temperature data for September 2010. The global anomaly was at +0.525 °C which is the lowest anomaly in 2010 so far - but it was enough to keep September 2010 the warmest September on the RSS record; it's followed by +0.494 °C in September 1998.

American Thinker: UN Environmental Extortion

If the future of the world is financially encumbered by extorting apocalyptic environmentalism, it will be a very odd one; the gun held to our heads using our own bullets. If the Yasuni-ITT Initiative gains traction through its UN broker, an inept, corrupt, and indefatigably bureaucratic organization, the UN will continue to mandate the rest of the world to siphon carbonesque dollars to third world rain forest countries with a penchant for the autocratic and despotic.

The Climate Sceptics (TCS) Blog: Royal Society or Royal Commission?

Professor Ian Plimer, author of the best selling "Heaven+Earth" is quoted by the Australian as saying that the society's statement was a "wonderful breath of honesty and fresh air from an organisation that has been politicised".

"Science is always uncertain," Professor Plimer said."Science doesn't work by voting. It is not a democracy, it works on evidence."

However, nothing seems to get through to the hard nosed Alarmists. New Climate Change Minister Greg Combet (Hey, Greg are you aware that climate has changed from the beginning of time?) foolishly said the Royal Society's switch would not have any influence on the government's push to put a price on carbon.

"The government accepts the climate science," Mr Combet said. "The debate has moved on."

Sounds a lot like the Flat Earth Society, Greg.