Climate change scientist Michael Mann fends off denial group's raid on emails | Environment | The Guardian

With Tuesday's ruling, Mann for the first time has a say in the university's decisions about which emails should be released.

Rick Piltz, the director of Climate Science Watch, said Mann's lawyers could also be expected to fight more strenuously for his privacy than his former employer.

Mann's legal battles do not end with Tuesday's decision. The judge ordered the scientist and the university to come to an agreement with ATI on email access by 20 December or else he would impose one.

"I have no illusions that ATI and their industry-funded ilk are going to give up in their efforts to harass me and other climate scientists," Mann wrote. "But this is a very good day for me, for my fellow scientists across the country who might fear that they could be subject to similar intimidation tactics if their work too were perceived as a threat to powerful vested interests, and it's a good day for the publicm, which, after all, depend on the unfettered progress of science for the betterment of modern life."

Irony from GetUp | Climate Nonconformist

...Yes, that’s right, the Museum of Democracy. This tax has never been taken to the electorate at an election, was explicitly ruled out at an election, and will likely be implemented before the next election. And these people have the gall to even associate it with democracy? Pathetic, GetUp.

Biofuel obsession wrecks African communities | Australian Climate Madness

Biofuels – just the latest in the long line of green mirages, which, like all the others, disappears the closer you inspect it. Driven by the madness of climate change zealots who are hectoring and badgering us to abandon cheap coal and oil to “save the planet”, biofuels succeed in only two things – depriving already poor communities of their livelihoods and the world of its precious food resources.

Prayer for climate action - Local News - News - General - Maribyrnong Weekly

IT STARTED with a crazy idea from a shy Footscray mum. On Sunday, parishioners of StMark's Anglican Church in Spotswood will join Christians all over Australia - and the world - in a national day of prayer and action on climate change.

The local 'Hope for Creation' event is the brainchild of Cathy Cook, who has a masters in theological ethics, specialising in ecology, from Edinburgh University.