High steaks: Meat eaters’ climate impact | Grist

According to EWG, the top five worst climate culprits are, in order: lamb, beef, cheese, pork, and farmed salmon. Cheese at No. 3 and salmon at No. 5 surprised me...Who knew one less burger a week could be so significant?

Lies, damned lies and climate politics | Climate Spectator

Abbott may pretend not to be a climate denier, but he certainly sings from their song-book. Many of his one-liners, like yesterday’s about the rate of increase in China’s emissions, and its comparisons with Australia’s meagre reduction efforts, come straight from climate sceptics' blogs.

But Abbott understands all too well that if you produce enough crap, as incoherent and contradictory as it might be, enough of it will stick. And in this media environment it only needs to last five minutes to be effective. As the Climate Institute’s John Connor told the audience on Monday, “it’s like trying to nail jelly to the wall.”

Carbon tax makes Gillard Australia's least wanted - Australasia, World - The Independent

Her green agenda has made the nation's PM its least popular leader in decades. In Sydney, Roger Maynard reports on the backlash

Support for the Australian government hit an all-time low yesterday amid a growing public backlash against a controversial carbon tax which threatens to derail the leadership of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.