PM - Senate passes steel rescue package amid more acrimony 09/11/2011
MARK COLVIN: The Senate has passed the last element of the Federal Government's carbon tax package - a $300 million rescue package for the steel industry.
The funding will go to the two big steel manufacturers BlueScope Steel and OneSteel.
The Opposition voted against the assistance, saying it was a "bandaid" solution to the costs imposed by Labor's carbon tax.
...ANDREW MACINTOSH: I suppose the hope is that through time that steps like what Australia has done now will add to the momentum for changes in other countries and in particular the big polluting countries, India, China, the United States.
But I don't think anyone's delusional enough to think that the adoption of an emissions trading scheme in Australia is going to convince any of those countries immediately to change their position.
The Developing World, Leading on Climate Change? - NYTimes.com
In what may turn out to be one of the abiding ironies of global geopolitics, leadership on climate change seems to have suddenly passed from the developed to the developing world, as has public anxiety about the damaging effects of a changing climate.
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This tallies with the opinion of environmental policy experts. Rajendra K. Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, recently told India Ink that the resources devoted to cleaning India’s rivers have not led to tangible results. He blamed the lack of an “appropriate oversight mechanism” which would create transparency and accountability.
The National Weather Service says Lancaster recorded a temperature of 22 degrees at 6:34 a.m. Tuesday, breaking the old record of 27 degrees set in 2000.
The Basics Of Leadership Storytelling - Forbes
I explained how Al Gore went from being Mr. Boring to Mr. Excitement and in the process won an Emmy, an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize.
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