Climate change: an eye on the storms | Andrew Simms | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

We all know particular events can't be attributed to long-term warming of the atmosphere. Actually, it's no longer that simple

Australia's climate scientists expose shock-jock distortion tactics | Stephan Lewandowsky | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The resultant "debate" about the carbon tax has turned into a fact-free brawl that is sufficiently devoid of ethics to make football hooligans blush. Segments of the media, alas, do not blush.

During the recent truck "convoy" that descended upon Parliament Hill in Canberra to protest against the carbon tax, faint memories of Allende's Chile were quickly overpowered by the raging tirade of the presiding shock jock, Alan Jones, who whipped his crowd of truckwits into a frenzy when journalists asked whether he had been paid for his engagement.

This rage has been no isolated incident. At a recent talkfest by vaudevillian denialist Lord Christopher Monckton, a journalist of the ABC was jostled by the hostile crowd.

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Lord Stern appointed to Green Investment Bank Advisory Group - 01 Sep 2011 - News from BusinessGreen

Lord Stern of Brentford, author of the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change, chairman of the influential Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, and holder of previous posts at the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is probably the most high-profile member of the group, which will hold its first meeting on 6 September.