Coal: “Externalities” Can be Positive, Not Only Negative — MasterResource

Delving into the literature shows that a different group of folks could set out to examine the same thing even selecting from among the same pool of climate, economic, and epidemiological studies and arrive at a largely different conclusion—a conclusion that the externalities from coal-fuelled electricity are only slightly negative, and perhaps even positive.

How the carbon dioxide tax will become a central planner’s dream | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This is going to be a disaster, and the greatest scrabble for handouts ever seen in this country.

- Bishop Hill blog - Tim Flannery on Andrew Marr

The BBC is back to full frontal global warming propaganda, with Tim Flannery given the promotional treatment on Start the Week this morning. By happy chance, I switched the radio off this morning before the show started.

Someone recently noted that it doesn't matter how often the Flanneries of the world are wrong, or how wrong (and Flannery has banged on endlessly about drought in Australia). They will always get a sympathetic hearing on the BBC.