Global Warming To Save The Planet? | Via Meadia

Greens need to shift their focus. Instead of maintaining — in a shrill and futile way — that concern over carbon emissions should become the number one priority of domestic and international policy everywhere, greens need to look for ways at integrating the kinds of energy policies they want with the priorities that other people have.  And by other people, I don’t mean investment bankers and politicians who want governments to create artificial markets (as in carbon emission permits) off which they can make billions of dollars in speculative profits. I also don’t mean large agribusiness interests who want to make out like bandits from the ethanol scam.

$1.5m to stop planet sinking | thetelegraph.com.au

Deputy Opposition Leader and foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop said the spending over the past four years should be examined.

"This type of expenditure must be assessed for how effective it has been in raising living standards in developing countries," Ms Bishop said.

"The review into aid effectiveness recommended that strict performance benchmarks must be applied and Labor has failed to implement these benchmarks. It is vital that AusAID programs are scrutinised for efficiency."

On the Marc with Marcus Carey:Speaking of global warming, start here | KyForward.com

Gore and his buh-zillionaire friends are the kind of folks who populate shows like “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”. I’m sure they think of us as a bunch of gun totin’, Bible- thumpin’, moonshine swillin’, toothless inbred hillbillies who populate shows like the “Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.” In their world they see us as too stupid to grasp the urgency of action required in order to reverse global warming.

Well I’m willing to give them a shot. Never let it be said that we hillbillies don’t know how to be fair. And since I think asking them to control the whole world at once would be too big a task just to prove me wrong, to be fair I have a more manageable proposition.

I would like for them to merely control the weather over my farm for a few months.

- Bishop Hill blog - The cost of wind

The Telegraph reports:

A study in the Netherlands found that turning back-up gas power stations on and off to cover spells when there is little wind actually produces more carbon than a steady supply of energy from an efficient modern gas station.

C3: The IPCC's Killing Machines: Unable To Predict Accurately, IPCC Climate Models Ultimately Cause Deaths

Policymakers reliance on the significantly wrong United Nations' IPCC climate model predictions is leading to needless death and suffering - East Africa is recent example