PM - Govt says coal industry has bright future but cuts compensation 06/07/2011

RALPH HILLMAN: Eighteen mines will be at risk of premature closure in New South Wales and Queensland by 2020. About 4,000 jobs could go and $22 billion in revenue could be lost.
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RALPH HILLMAN: In summary, an $18 billion tax, with less than $1.5 billion transitional assistance to address coal industry competitiveness, just doesn't add up.

Branson weighs in on carbon tax debate - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has weighed into the debate over the carbon tax, saying it should be adopted simultaneously worldwide to avoid disadvantaging countries and companies.
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"But if it disadvantages Australian companies and Australian people... that's a question that Australians are going to have to ask themselves."

New Paper “Built For Stability” By Paul Valdes – Further Evidence Of The Failure Of The IPCC Models As Skillful Multi-Decadal Climate Forecasting Tools | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

There is a new paper which raises questions about the ability of the IPCC global climate model to skillfuly predict paleoclimate. The IPCC has claimed such skill as evidence of its skill to predict climate decades into the future. Based on this new paper, such a claim is unwarranted.

Science Corruption at the National Academies of Science | Hawaii Reporter

BY MICHAEL R. FOX PHD – Since the proponents of global warming are being caught without providing supporting evidence, the theory of man-made global warming is being destroyed before our very eyes. With no hardnosed physical evidence, measurable, observable, replicable evidence, the fiction has been sustained by non-science methods. These include appeals to authority, existence of an elitist scientific consensus, computer models none of which produce physical evidence.

Crippling national energy policies, environmental policies, economic policies are being seriously considered. Such suicidal policies did not originate in the recent fictions of climate change, but from the leaders of the UN and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their friends within the American leadership.