Why should we pay Ireland for its wind? - Telegraph

So for our £1.6 billion a year – more than half of it in subsidies – we would only receive some 1.25GW. This could be generated much more reliably, and at a tiny fraction of the cost, by a single large gas-fired power station.

In other words, this lunatic scheme will do little to help us meet our fanciful EU target of 14GW, which we haven't the faintest hope of meeting, anyway.

Climate Common Sense: Lethal Blow for Carbon Tax!

The Gillard fiction that the rest of the world is taxing emissions is highlighted by US Senator Jim Sensenbrenner who says there is no prospect of carbon pricing in the US and various state schemes are collapsing.
Australia is in grave danger of needlessly damaging our economy adopting carbon pricing when our largest trading partners have not. China has signaled it's attitude clearly by holding up a huge passenger jet contract because the EU wants them to pay a carbon tax on flights from China.

Ask the Religion Experts: What is Canada’s ethical role in the world?

KEVIN SMITH is on the board of directors for the Centre of Inquiry, Canada’s premier venue for humanists, skeptics and freethinkers.
...[Smith] Today we’re known as climate change deniers with a dirty carbon footprint, except perhaps in poorest Africa, where the citizens’ only thought is survival and yet we’ve cut back aid.