Carbon tax won't cut power use: Barnett

"I don't think it will work. I just don't think it will affect consumer behaviour," he told Sydney radio jock Alan Jones in a program broadcast from Perth.

"Electricity prices will go up, again that will affect the cost of living but will people use electricity less? No, I don't think so."

Why are natural disasters linked to climate change? Answers from a public relations convention « Shub Niggurath Climate

The only solution, the report concludes is to have a “SWAT team” of public relations personnel who will “ready to go into action immediately” as a disaster occurs, and immediately link the disaster to ‘climate change’ across a wide variety of media platforms. This would serve the twin purposes of swiftly capturing the sphere of information, and gaining mileage afforded by reaching minds in a vulnerable state.

Record highs? – NOAA staffers are beginning to doubt the accuracy of the measurement system | Watts Up With That?

While Joe Romm squawks about record highs being “obscenely hot” over at Think-Climate Progress, there’s a quiet bit of questioning going on within NOAA about the veracity of the surface temperature measurements, particularly related to ASOS stations at airports, which have made up a significant number of recent record high temperatures in the USA in June.

Below is an extraordinary interchange between Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., and Greg Carbin, of the NOAA Storm Prediction Center.

Milne confirms: the tax won’t push us to renewables | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Deputy Greens leader Christine Milne is just the latest to confirm that this carbon dioxde tax won’t change the climate.