Climate deniers refuse to accept skeptical scientists’ results | Grist

This raises the question: What will it take to convince deniers? What if they burned up in their shoes, would that do it? What if God came down and drew a hockey stick graph on the wall? What if Dumbledore explained it using his Pensieve? Look, if science doesn't work, it's going to have to be God, magic, or spontaneous combustion; that's just a fact of nature.

NYT: Shifting Attitudes on Global Warming

[Lew Wallace] In these overheated times, American and Australian politics have this in common: take a stance to slow global warming and risk political suicide.

How to repeal the carbon tax | The Australian

THE carbon tax is an economic failure. It is also an environmental failure.

This grand failure comes from the simple fact that while it is enormously expensive, the tax singularly fails to clean up either Australia or the world. In short, it doesn't do the job because at its heart it is merely an inefficient electricity tax.

Tim Flannery backs coal-seam gas and mining industry | The Australian

THE nation's most prominent environmentalist, Tim Flannery, has spoken out in support of the coal-seam gas industry, warning that opposition to such exploration could lead to "social dislocation" across regional Australia.

Professor Flannery, who is one of the Gillard government's national climate commissioners, also said mining and its products were "utterly necessary" to modern life, and predicted the Australian coal industry would enjoy robust growth for perhaps the next 25 years.