Zeg's take on Carbon Tax Protests

When you have people who have NEVER protested about anything in their lives, massing in front of our Parliament House , holding NON CARBON TAX banners high, then one can only assume that if you as the PM really thought that you were imposing policy that is truly popular thing then you would face these people and answer their genuine concerns. You would also think that if you believed that you were on the side of what is correct for the economy and the future of the environment, as you continue to claim, then you would silence your critics with a referendum on the tax. You would expect that of a true Leader!

The Reference Frame: Monbiot vs McKibben: nuclear civil war inside the green movement

Among the global warming worriers, the dilemma is fatal because aside from the generally hated fossil fuels and the disputed nuclear energy, there is no realistic source of energy that could satisfy the bulk of the energy needs of the mankind in the decades to come.

Promise for Uganda: Prosperity Through Oil & Gas Development — MasterResource

[The greatest opportunity for wealth creation in many poor countries is oil and gas development. In particular, subsoil privatization can incite resourceship and democratize wealth as explained by Guillermo "Billy" Yeatts in Subsoil Privatization for Energy Sustainability. This post by Cyril Boynes, Jr. co-chair of the Congress of Racial Equality Uganda, contributes to this imperative.]

Quadrant Online - GetUp's good idea

This is a marvellous idea – for sceptics. Sceptical points of views and challenges have been successfully dismissed by the media. Climate realists have found it virtually impossible to get their arguments heard. The action GetUp is proposing is an ideal tactic for sceptics to adopt to challenge unscientific assertions made by the media.

GetUp have also issued a strident criticism of Jones and Smith which, in turn, could be used to argue that the ACMA code should be enforced across broadcasting generally, and also at the national broadcaster