Abbott baits PM, Wong over carbon tax | Climate Change | BigPond News

Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has used an early morning visit to a Melbourne fish market to bait the government about its carbon pricing scheme.

He accused Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Finance Minister Penny Wong of not knowing the finer details of their scheme.

'The finance minister couldn't explain the cost of the (carbon) tax,' he told reporters.

David Suzuki: Let's stop wasting time on unscientific climate change deniers | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

After all their digging, deniers have only been able to find a few minor errors in the volumes of peer-reviewed science about climate change, and have had to rely on manufactured scandals and conspiracy theories to bolster their arguments. It only takes a bit of investigating to poke holes in the scant bits of research that have attempted to discredit real climate science. Let’s stop wasting our time on deniers. It would be better spent trying to resolve the serious problems we have created.

From the Pickens’ Mouth

Pickens claims that Koch is working for himself, while the pure hearted T. Boone Pickens is working for America. Now yes, Koch Industries has a financial incentive to not support federally built infrastructure for a fuel that competes with a product that he sells, but it also clearly aligns with a free-market perspective of not providing federal support for any particular energy sources. Furthermore, if it wasn’t obvious, Pickens would stand to make tons of money from increasing the use of natural gas in America, so its beyond ingenuous to pretend that he is “doing good.”

Al Gore Announces a Second Act: Climate Reality Project | Death and Taxes

As Gore expressed in his recent Rolling Stone article, it’s got to be frustrating when you keep screaming that the sky is falling and no one (at least no policy makers) listen. The sky is now quite literally falling—and snowing and tornado-ing—you can see it. And still lawmakers do nothing.

The romance of bad carbon policy | Rob Burgess | Commentary | Business Spectator

Australia now has three positions on tackling climate change: Labor's hybrid 50/50 capitalist-socialist scheme, the rationalist-socialist policy offered by the Coalition, and the romantic-socialist position of the Greens.