AP NewsBreak: Calif. delays cap and trade - Forbes.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- California regulators on Wednesday said they would give power plants, refineries and other major polluters another year to comply with a new state program that provides financial incentives to emit fewer greenhouse gases.

Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the Air Resources Board, said in testimony before a state Senate committee that the government is giving California's major polluters until 2013 to comply with its cap-and-trade program.

Monckton lashes out at media coverage - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

After his speech he slammed recent media coverage.

"Only last week one of your leading newspapers, leading columnists, wrote a column saying that people like us should be gassed," he said.

"No apology and none of you have gone round to her house and thrust microphones in her face and said don't you think you're being a bit unfair.

"So there is very plainly a nasty double standard here."

University witchdoctors speak out, and the frightened are fleeing! « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Latter’s current research is a PhD thesis on the intergenerational and global ethical dimensions of climate change. It’s not like she has any conflict of interest then is it? And nor is it likely that she has published any papers in radiative physics, or analysis of climate feedbacks. Yet such is the poor standard of academic quality at the formerly great University of Western Australia that she doesn’t realize that when someone without any publications demands that someone else without publications be silenced because they don’t have any publications, she’s wallowing in abject hypocrisy.