My climate views are ungaggable: Turnbull

"Nobody has gagged me, I'm ungaggable I assure you," he told reporters in Sydney today.

"I'm beyond gagging."
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But Mr Turnbull toed the Coalition line when asked about the federal government's clean energy regulator policed by "carbon cops".

"I'm sure it will be heavy-handed because there's obviously going to be a very tough enforcement mechanism," he said.

Morrissey: Killing Animals Worse Than Norway Massacre

English singer Morrissey says what happened in Norway is "nothing compared" to what happens to animals killed for fast-food chains, reports say.

The 52-year-old vegan, who is a vocal supporter of animals rights, made the remarks to concertgoers at a performance in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday night, the Daily Mirror reported.
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He also expressed his unhappiness that British Prime Minister David Cameron was a fan of the Smiths as the Conservative leader had hunted stag in the past.

"I don't think I would," he told a BBC program in April when asked if he would greet Mr Cameron if he came to his dressing room.

"It's a moral issue. Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference?"

Is Physicist Stephen Hawking Overrated?

I hope that Hawking is simply repeating something he's been told, but hasn't taken time to examine. If Hawking took the time to examine both sides of the debate over global warming he would realize that global warming is based on a long discredited 19th Century theory that is inconsistent with the laws of thermodynamics. The so called greenhouse effect represents a form of perpetual motion machine that is inconsistent with accepted thermodynamic theories

Jean Baptist Joseph Fourier claimed in 1827 that greenhouses worked by allowing in sunlight and then trapping the infrared radiation produced inside to heat the greenhouse. R. W. Wood disproved this theory in a 1909 experiment that indicated no significant difference in temperature between a greenhouse that "trapped" IR and one that was transparent to IR. In fact in the initial run of the experiment the transparent greenhouse heated faster because the one that reflected IR reflected incoming solar IR back into space.