UPDATE 1-Europe set to revive 30 percent carbon cut debate | Reuters

 Earlier this week, Denmark's Climate and Energy Minister Martin Lidegaard said 30 percent would be politically very difficult.

Cardinal Pell's scepticism is scientifically and theologically indefensible – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

But the discourse of climate change has become so debased that every view - however bizarre - is given an airing and a certain credibility. Like homeopathy and astrology, the Cardinal's pseudo-science should be ignored, and the scientific method allowed to continue, however unpalatable to some the scientific conclusions may be.

Tim Stephens is Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law, at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, and an acolyte and parishioner in the Archdiocese of Sydney.

Politics of Climate Change Subject of Conference | alaskapublic.org

The vast majority of scientists agree the planet is warming as a result of man-made greenhouse gas emissions  [about halfway through, we hear extensively from climate realist Syun-Ichi Akasofu.  He says 5/6 of the present warming is natural.]

Green charities: way more evil and dangerous than Exxon or the Koch Brothers – Telegraph Blogs

I think that of all the things I discovered while researching my book Watermelons, this was the one that shocked me most: the outrageous power wielded by democratically unaccountable  environmental NGOs, with the budgets of big corporations and the political philosophy of Marxists.