[What is their motivation?]: Australian business heads push for carbon tax

A sense of gloom continues to hang over negotiations for a new and binding global agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Talks last week between the climate envoys from Washington and Beijing seemed to reinforce that pessimism by failing to achieve a breakthrough ahead of the next UN climate summit at Cancun, Mexico, beginning in late November. But some experts say it is irrelevant that there's no international deal because countries are acting anyway. And a new Australian study suggests that despite different formulations for their individual pledges, they are all pledging to do a similar thing.

Holbrooke’s Amazing Global Warming Claim
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For some, global warming is the sinister cause of every problem plaguing the world-even the conflict between India and Pakistan.

Time To Hold Environmental And Climate Doomsayers To Account

The false idea is presented out of context then left uncorrected by lack of follow up. This is especially true if the story is a prediction. We need a media vehicle to analyze the story in context followed by the aftermath. It’s time for a program on which doomsayers who profited financially or politically from false stories and predictions confronted and held to account. Here are some recent stories that proved incorrect.

Six in ten households concerned about cost of fuel | IVA News | Money Debt & Credit

At least 61 per cent of households in the UK are concerned about the cost of energy bills this winter.

If bills are too expensive, families may go without heating...