Wind fails to turn a profit Tasmania News - The Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania

THE Tasmanian Government has been told it needs to pray for wind of "biblical proportions" to return Hydro Tasmania's wind-farm business to profitability.

Cancun suffers its final indignity: a visit from 'Two Jags' Prescott – Telegraph Blogs

...This is a political euphemism for: “We plan to bomb the Western economy back to the dark ages in order to deal with a problem which is entirely the invention of eco-fascists bent on imposing their Marxist redistributionist agenda on the world.”

Obviously this is all very funny and we can laugh knowingly about this, except at the same time it’s not. What kind of universe do we inhabit where a creature of Prescott’s magisterial stupidity, incompetence and chippiness is, instead of being accorded his proper place in a cardboard box under a bridge, rewarded by being treated as a global ambassador with the power (however cackhandedly deployed) to affect other people’s lives. No loving God could possibly allow such a thing to happen. We should all become atheists in protest.

Climate Lessons: Another straw in the wind - here is a teacher who has had enough of 'climate porn'

Hope and change spring eternal!

Freeze warning issued for North Florida

Panama City - Florida Division of Emergency Management officials are encouraging residents and visitors across Florida’s panhandle to prepare for freezing temperatures overnight through Thursday.

Mexico Sees US Emissions Target as 'Modest' - ABC News

President Barack Obama has proposed reducing U.S. emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.

Mexican climate envoy Luis Alfonso de Alba said that level of ambition, "which I consider to be still modest," was not likely to improve after Republican gains in midterm elections.
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But China has pledged to slow the growth of its emissions, cutting carbon intensity — emissions per unit of GDP — by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 from 2005. India, another major emerging economy, has offered to reduce its carbon intensity by 20 to 25 percent.

"China and India have put forward ambitious figures," de Alba said.