Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Warm autumn: Help us map your 'weird nature' observations | Environment | guardian.co.uk

You've been telling us about the weird occurrences happening in the natural world due to the unusually warm autumn weather - now you can help us document some of these changes by plotting your observations on this collaborative Google map.

No tax, no trading but US says it's serious

Mr Obama said that despite the failure of its proposed ''cap-and-trade'' emissions trading scheme to pass Congress the US was taking action to reduce its greenhouse emissions. He did not directly address a question about whether the US could adopt a national carbon price in the near future.

''Although we haven't passed a cap-and-trade system, we have taken steps to double fuel efficiency standards on cars which will have an enormous impact on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere … and we have invested heavily in clean energy research,'' he said at the joint press conference with the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

[Warmist Richard Branson's] Virgin Media fails to rule out ditching [Al Gore's] Current TV

Virgin Media has refused to rule out reports that it could be set to axe US channel Current TV from its electronic programme guide (EPG).

The truth will out on Labor's carbon scam | thetelegraph.com.au

And soon, we will send billions of dollars overseas to buy useless pieces of paper called carbon credits. Invest-ment bankers, lawyers and carbon traders will get rich, as will all the usual spivs and scam artists ready to stick a bucket under the government spigot raining taxpayer cash.

It doesn't matter how many fairy stories the Greens tell about how the carbon tax will "save" the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu. Or how many gullible people believe hurricanes, floods and earthquakes are the result of man-made global warming. Eventually, the truth will out.

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