Will President Obama Send Green Marines to Darwin? | DanJCass

[Labor Member for Wakefield Nick Champion] Make no mistake; if you’re a self-confessed climate sceptic then you’re as soft as butter on Australia’s defence.

Polar bears pay the price for greenhouse gases in Arctic

Post-lunch during the short interactive session with the WWF scientists, we were told that as a result of the climate change, the Arctic ice is shrinking at an alarming rate of about 11 per cent per annum.

Redford dogged by carbon capture plan

The government "remains fully committed" to carbon capture, say officials in the departments of energy and environment.

Though "trapped" might be a better word. The promise to spend $2 billion on experiments in carbon capture was made not by Alison Redford, but by her predecessor, Ed Stelmach, in the summer of 2008 when the world was a different place politically and economically.

Now, the Redford government is "committed" to carbon and capture in much the same way a prisoner is committed to his ball and chain. And a 15-year sentence. That's how long the government has committed to spend money on the industrial-scale experiments.

Slip leaves Edmonton mayor with broken, bruised ribs

The weather at the time was “brutal” with blowing snow and icy sidewalks, Loken said.

Amid dire warming warnings, Canada is MIA - The Globe and Mail

At Durban, once again, Canada will be excluded from any serious deliberations. Canada is widely considered a climate-change miscreant. Nobody who knows the climate-change file in Canada or abroad believes the federal government’s intention to reduce emissions by 17 per cent by 2020 from 2005 levels.