Climate Common Sense: Patronising Julia likens Carbon Tax to "Eat Your Vegetables"

The vegetables Julia refers to are likely to be served with the Gillard Goose says Dennis Shanahan of the Australian. One offended voter said that Gillard was not his mother and suggested in a non-filial manner exactly what she could do with her vegetables .

Climate change arguments incite 'weird religiosity', says Greg Barker | Environment | The Guardian

Amid frustration in Whitehall at the tone of the debate, Barker said: "If you look at the extremes of the climate debate, whether it is the extreme climate sceptics or the extreme climate zealots, there is a slight religiosity there which is weird."

He said hardliners on both sides should reflect on the consequences of adopting such strident stances. "I think the broad base of sound scientific opinion, of sensible and respected science, supports urgent climate action," he said to sceptics who question the need for action. "Of course science is constantly evolving. The notion that you need to have 100% certainty on any given issue is unhelpful anyway. Acting now on climate is the prudent sensible thing to do."

UN climate panel to examine extreme events

The chairman of a top U.N. climate panel says it will release a new report in November examining the link between climate change and extreme events like floods and drought that are taking place around the world.

Rajendar Pachauri, chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told reporters Tuesday that the panel has already reported that extreme events are increasing.

Australia's place in the global web of climate denial - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

With all of this noise being generated in the coming weeks over climate change, Australians could be forgiven for thinking there is a genuine debate over the causes of rising global temperatures, melting ice-sheets, retreating Arctic ice, acidifying oceans, rising sea-levels or the many other direct consequences of increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.