Be prudent with climate claims | The Australian

The cost of attempts to make global warming go away will be very heavy. They may be levied initially on "the big polluters" but they will eventually trickle down to the end-users. Efforts to offset the effects on the vulnerable are well intentioned but history tells us they can only be partially successful.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. My request is for common sense and what the medievals, following Aristotle, called prudence.

The appeal must be to the evidence. First of all we need adequate scientific explanations as a basis for our economic estimates. We also need history, philosophy, even theology and many will use, perhaps create, mythologies. But most importantly we need to distinguish which is which.
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Cardinal George Pell is the Archbishop of Sydney.

Liquor store blames carbon tax for beer carton price hike | Adelaide Now

A LIQUOR store has been caught trying to blame the carbon tax for a 20 per cent rise in beer prices.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims has warned businesses they must be able to substantiate their claims.
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He said his team, dubbed "carbon cops", was on the beat watching for misleading claims.

Bayless Lectures on Climate Change - Local News - Clarksburg, WV - msnbc.com

A former energy executive and CEO was presenting at WVUs School of Law Tuesday.

Successful and accomplished businessman, Charles Bayless, spoke about climate change at the Marlyn E. Lugar Courtroom.
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While global warming and climate change is often mocked, Bayless says the problem is real, and at this point it will effect people.

"I think its really going to be the defining issue of this century," says Bayless. "I mean the green house gasses weve already put into the atmosphere are going to lead to another 1.5- to 2- degree rise."

Those rising temperatures he says, could lead to major weather and environmental changes.

The studies show that Texas will turn into a dust bowl so people say 'fine, who cares,' but Texans do, I can tell you that after this year," says Bayless. "So I think its going to bring massive upheaval to weather patterns, rain patters, agriculture, and things like that.