Web war over Obama's jet jab - POLITICO.com

Obama mentioned corporate jets or corporate-jet owners six times on Wednesday during a press conference, sparking outrage among hard-core conservatives who accused him of engaging in “class warfare” or worse.

Fading public support spells doom for carbon tax | The Australian

The next federal election will inevitably be a referendum on an uncovenanted carbon tax that in three short years will morph into the world's first economy-wide ETS.

Oxford academic wins right to read UEA climate data | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Jonathan Jones, physics professor at Oxford University and self-confessed "climate change agnostic", used freedom of information law to demand the data that is the life's work of the head of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones. UEA resisted the requests to disclose the data, but this week it was compelled to do so.

Graham gave the UEA one month to deliver the data, which includes more than 4m individual thermometer readings taken from 4,000 weather stations over the past 160 years. The commissioner's office said this was his first ruling on demands for climate data made in the wake of the climategate affair.