Leak roof forces PM Gillard out of Lodge

Earlier, Coalition MPs cheered the return of Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, who has not attended parliament since a heart operation in August, as he answered a question about which countries would follow Australia in adopting a carbon price.

Mr Rudd, who is the subject of leadership revival rumours, shot back that those who did not want action on climate change had their "heads firmly stuck in the ground".

Rolling with the climate change punches - Opinion - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Environment Canada reports that severe weather events that used to happen once every 40 years could now occur every six years

Caldeira: 99% of Effort to Avoid Climate Change Should Be on Emissions Cuts, Liability Risks Make Geoengineering Unlikely | ThinkProgress

[Warmist Caldeira] Let’s imagine the sunlight reflection method worked as advertised. How could anybody ever tell whether a weather event was due to the stratospheric aerosols, excess greenhouse gases, or natural variability in the climate system? If some region has a major drought in the decade after the introduction of the stratospheric aerosol spray, aren’t they likely to attribute that change to the aerosol spray system? Isn’t that likely to generate political friction and possibly even military conflict?
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A year ago, Caldeira e-mailed me his financial connection to geoengineering research:
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I do think that the “Climate Remediation” Task Force should have spelled out all such interests for all its participants.

Are Bike Rentals a Success? Depends Who You Ask - NYTimes.com

My characterization of the bike program as ‘‘hugely successful’’ led to a lively debate among my editors, a number of whom argued that Vélib was not in fact successful because it had failed to reduce traffic and so many of the bicycles are damaged, vandalized or stolen that the program was probably running at a loss.

True, the evidence is inconclusive, so far as I can tell — though this poster well illustrates some potential gains from moving people onto bikes.

But as my Paris colleagues Steven Erlanger and Maïa de la Baume noted two years ago, there have indeed been an awful lot of problems: bikes stolen and shipped overseas, thrown into the river or mutilated by disaffected youths while still in the rack, to name some of the biggest.

It’s not uncommon to show up at a Vélib station expecting to grab a ride, only to find every single bike unusable.