Axe falls at Environment Canada, as 60 science jobs declared surplus

They broadly include engineers, scientists, biologists, climatologists, chemical analysts from across the country. They work in areas such as pollution, monitoring water quality, climate research.

No decision on China CO2 tax, says official: Pt Carbon - The Economic Times

WASHINGTON/BEIJING: China remains undecided whether to tax carbon emissions, as the government weighs how it could impact plans to launch an emissions trading scheme and whether it is feasible given current high domestic tax levels, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The statement contrasts with earlier media reports saying China will introduce a tax before 2015 and underscores global interest in how China plans to address climate change in the years ahead.

Monckton responds to “potholer54” | Watts Up With That?

no amount of sneering or smearing will alter two salient facts: the Earth has not been warming at anything like the predicted rate and is not now at all likely to do so; and, in any event, even if the climate-extremists’ predictions were right, it would be at least an order of magnitude more cost-effective to wait and adapt in a focused way to any adverse consequences of manmade “global warming” than it would be to tax, trade, regulate, reduce, or replace CO2 today.

Oops, we hit average. « the Air Vent

Sea ice is above average.