Gore’s consolation prizes hit the ground | The Anchoress

All of his post-election “success” — all of it; the praise, the accolades, the faux-adulation — was simply an expression of public spite against George W. Bush, and nothing more. Just as Jimmy Carter was (in the words of the Nobel Prize committee’s own rep) given his “Peace”prize as “a kick in the leg at Bush”, Gore only succeeded, post-Clinton, because of Bush-hatred. The left lifted Gore up on the hot air of their angry resentments against Bush, and the unquestioning obeisance to his every crazed muttering was a crafted consolation prize that only remained airborne as long as the heat of Bush-hate could be accessed, it’s chain pulled. Absent that heat, there was only the hard earth below.

Swedes' environmental interest plummets: report - The Local

Only 14 percent of Swedes currently consider the environment to be among our most important problems, reports daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Precedent supports climate skeptics

The new legal precedents will become increasingly vital as courtrooms become the major battleground over “blame” for the earth’s present temperatures. The alarmists continue to claim we will all soon be parboiled, despite the recent step-change in our weather and a new prediction from the U.S. National Solar Observatory that a quiet sun will bring declining temperatures through the next several decades.

Carbon price: the gas agenda | Green Left Weekly

the government is not simply driving a transition to gas, but coal seam gas.

Indeed, the CSIRO has estimated enormous coal seam gas reserves in eastern Australia — enough to power a city of 1 million people for 5000 years.