ENVIRONMENT: Business Lobby Resists Ban on ‘Perverse' Emissions - Part 2 - IPS ipsnews.net

BRUSSELS, Jun 3, 2011 (IPS) - For years, European governments and corporations have made use of a loophole in the Kyoto protocol on climate change to make exorbitant profits. According to some sources, this lucrative scheme has caused more pollution than ever before while lobbyists in Brussels have methodically undermined the European Commission's decision to put a stop to it.

Not the climate for another tax | Herald Sun

If Gillard is remembered for tapping a fashionable cause, she will also be accused of shoddiness in its pursuit. She wants Australians to invest in her plan, but she can't properly explain what the plan is.

How much it will cost - and that's the key question for most Australians - remains buried under layers of blather. Worse, the debate has spun out a stream of interlopers who few Australians nod to for their cues.

Various religious leaders have spoken of a "moral imperative" in supporting the tax. It's unclear how God feels about this. The way it's going, He will probably hold His own doorstop press conference in coming days.