Carbon tax a dead weight cost - BHP boss | Environment | BigPond News

Mining giant BHP Billiton boss Marius Kloppers has labelled Australia's looming carbon tax 'a dead weight cost' while outlining its negative impact on coal sector investment.

» No Spark: The Unanswered Questions of the Chevy Volt - Big Government

So, why should the American people sit idly by while GM pumps even more money into the Volt, a car consumers don’t want? Maybe because wealthy environmental activists think it’s wonderful and seem to imagine that sales will grow up from the ground as if by magic.

Great, isn’t it?

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"97 to 98 percent" of climate change researchers think it's human-caused. Perry's going with the other 2%.

In Oklahoma and elsewhere, a year of weather extremes - Page 2 - latimes.com

"This summer is a good wake-up call not to take nature lightly," said Katherine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University. "No matter people's perspectives about climate change, this year has helped highlight our vulnerability. Climate change increases the risk of what happens naturally."

May we see some evidence to back up that claim? How, specifically, do we know that a 61-degree world is more dangerous, rather than equally dangerous or less dangerous, than a 60-degree world?