A Debate on Death Spirals and Arctic Resilience - NYTimes.com

Joe Romm has predictably assailed my rejection of his “death spiral” depiction of Arctic sea ice trends, straying into discussions of melting permafrost (which is an entirely different issue laden with its own questions — one being why the last big retreat of permafrost, in the Holocene’s warmest stretch, didn’t have a greenhouse-gas impact) and my refusal to proclaim a magically safe level of carbon dioxide (which I discuss here).

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Sunday Age given the question it would hate to answer | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But you can tell that’s not the question the Sunday Age wants, because the headline to this report curiously asks another:

Who is funding climate change sceptics?

So be warned that if there is any way for the paper and its gaggle of Leftist allies to knock off Jason’s question, it will find one.

Sydney launch of "The Greens" | Australian Climate Madness

The Greens’ policies could only survive in a prosperous, free economy driven by market forces – the antithesis of Greens’ centralist political ideology. As a party which, historically at least, has had little influence in government, its policies were constructed in a vacuum, where moralistic ideals could be floated without a thought given to the result. Now that the Greens have power in the lower house and the Senate, suddenly their political ideals appear juvenile and gullible – the equivalent of the crusading teenager who wants to save the planet – and lacking any consideration for the issues that must be addressed in the real world.