Smelter demands tax shield or jobs axe falls | The Australian

METALS giant Nyrstar has demanded it be shielded from Julia Gillard's proposed carbon tax as key executives criticised the government's consultation with industry on compensation as lip-service.

Matt Howell, Nyrstar's Zurich-based general manager of group smelting operations, yesterday said if the Gillard government did not provide a serious commitment to protect the company's Australian operations under a carbon tax, then its two smelters in South Australia and Tasmania that employ 1500 people would close.

John O'Sullivan: Shock News: Disgraced Climategate Scientist Made Top UN Weatherman | Climate Realists

In a shock move a discredited global warming scientist implicated in climate fraud is appointed to a top job at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Jim Salinger, one of the scientists suspected of criminal misconduct in the Climategate scandal has been elected to the prestigious role of President of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Climate skeptics are aghast at the news.