Barking mad — a nation howling at fireflies « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

The bottom line — figure this — is that we as a nation have “decided” to voluntarily^ pay somewhere from 2 – 5 times as much for our energy, and there are no cheap “technologies” on the horizon unless someone somewhere discovers them (and they’ve been looking for decades). Julia Gillard tried to compare this to other major economic moves like floating the dollar. But those big moves had selling points known as “benefits”.

Bucket Adjustments: More Bilge from RealClimate « Climate Audit

NASA blogger Gavin Schmidt has once again fabricated claims against Climate Audit’s posts on bucket adjustments.

Double Whammy For Australia | Real Science

Not only do they have disastrous tax, but they have a massive new bureaucracy dedicated to further eliminating Australian jobs.

MinnPost - Don Shelby: Background claims by state Senate's global-warming skeptic fail to check out

Correction
The original version of this article contained information about The Heartland Institute’s funding and background that Heartland disputes. Heartland says it has not received funding from Exxon Mobil since 2006, and has not received funding from organizations affiliated with the Koch brothers or the Scaife Foundation since 1998. Heartland says it was established to find free-market solutions for an array of public policy matters. The original version of this article misstated what S. Fred Singer wrote about smoking and cancer. Singer said that research didn’t support the conclusion that second-hand smoke resulted in an increased cancer risk.