Climate Common Sense: Solar Dawn- Clean,Green Idiocy!

It is amazing that even while solar company Solyandra goes belly-up in the States taking Obama's half a billion dollars off into the solar sunset Gillard and her cohorts are busy coughing up a half billion dollars to Solar Dawn for a "hybrid solar power station" - a dopey concept which would only fool true believers, idiots and Gillard's bunch of incompetents.

Climate Resistance » The Energy Leak

Yet nobody has ever voted for higher energy bills. And nobody has ever been asked. Shouldn’t that worry the Prime Minister and the Department for Energy and Climate Change more than anything else?

1941 Heat Wave Caused DC Cherry Trees To Blossom In October | Real Science

People were too busy thinking about WWII to get neurotic about the weather.

NSW budget to include carbon tax blow - ABC Newcastle NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The budget will include an announcement of increased NSW mining royalties, to punish the Federal Government because of the expected impact of the carbon tax.

Municipalities Show Lukewarm Interest in Electric Cars | Environment | News | ERR

Out of the 507 environmentally-friendly electric cars that the state was planning to distribute to municipal social workers, only 336 were claimed.
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Low interest in procuring the electric vehicles could be attributed to the fact that municipalities are still skeptical on the cars' ability to function in harsh winter conditions, said Ploompuu. "Many requested one or two cars although [the municipalities] could have applied for three," she said.

In March, the government sealed a deal with Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation to buy 507 electric cars in exchange for 10 million carbon dioxide credits. From the proceeds of the deal, the state also plans to subsidize the first 500 electric vehicle buyers and build around 50 charging stations across Estonia by 2013.