Poland sparks controversy over climate vote

In May, a group of eight Polish think tank experts wrote an open letter warning climate-change issues were all but absent from the government’s presidency program.
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The experts were specifically worried about Poland’s capacity to coordinate a common EU position for the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa, which will take place in December.

Now, even before the start of the Polish presidency, it seems their fear that Poland would appear as a lone crusader on climate change issues was justified.

Did those who damn Monckton also attack Keating and Fraser? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Monckton is being made an example of to demonise and delegitimise scepticsm about the Government’s global warming agenda. It is despicable and anti-intellectual.

Editorial: Senate rethinks ethanol | The Providence Journal

A ray of common sense broke through the clouds in Washington the other week, when the Senate voted to end two ethanol subsidies. For years, the corn-based fuel (much loved by agribusiness) had been politically untouchable. But tax credits for ethanol, on top of a mandate to boost biofuel use, have become a costly redundancy. Then too, the wisdom of expanding ethanol use looks increasingly doubtful.
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In the long run, it makes better sense to simply end subsidies for corn-based ethanol, and to devote federal resources to developing new forms of biofuels.