The Delinquent Teenager | The Rational Optimist…

[Donna Laframboise] In other words, the IPCC entrusted the most central question of all to the judgment of a person it was fully aware had declined to share her data with one of its own expert reviewers. It has never had the grace (or the wisdom) to be the least bit embarrassed about this.

Energy Costs to Constrain Quality of Life - The Source - WSJ

The European Commission forecasts that electricity prices will rise in real terms for at least 20 years. Which should be good news for green-leaning politicians like the U.K.’s Prime Minister David Cameron. Except it’s not.

Because although the recent rise in energy bills will prove to be a major constraint on global demand and production, and therefore should help to keep a lid on greenhouse gas production, people are likely to take out their unhappiness about the worsening state of their household finances—in other words having to use a bigger proportion of their incomes on energy—on sitting politicians.

Australia: Labor Gives Green Groups $3m For Climate Campaign

LABOR has handed $3 million in grants to supporters of climate change action to promote efforts to cut global warming and support the government's clean energy package as it seeks to head off Tony Abbott's anti-carbon tax campaign.

Tata Steel Warns UK On ‘Over The Top’ Green Policy

The head of the European division of Tata Steel of India has warned that a planned £1.2bn investment programme by his company in Britain could be put at risk by the UK government’s “over the top” climate change policies directed at heavy industry.