Australia: Political Upheaval May Kill Carbon Tax

Kevin Rudd, who stepped down as Australia's foreign minister this week, said on Friday he would contest a leadership vote against Prime Minister Julia Gillard, bringing to a head a bitter leadership fight engulfing the minority government. A Rudd victory could spark an early election, as there is no guarantee he will win the backing of independents needed to control parliament. That, in turn, would risk major reforms, including a carbon tax and a 30-per-cent tax on coal and iron ore mines.

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Twitter / @alecbaldwin: When someone says, "isn't ...

When someone says, "isn't global warming great?", I wanna throw them in to a fire.

Lego owners splash $500 million on green power | Reuters

(Reuters) - The family firm that controls Denmark's Lego is buying almost a third of a German offshore wind power project in an unusual foray outside the toy business to showcase its green credentials to customers.

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Marc Morano is executive editor of ClimateDepot.com and a global-warming skeptic. He says the arguments from this year's meeting are more of the same.
 
"These are people who depend on the goodwill of government bureaucrats, government-elected officials," Morano says. "In the case of the National Academy of Science, [it] took $6 million and turned around and lobbied for a climate bill in Washington. This is supposed to be your 'neutral' science group."
Morano adds that in the case of James Hansen, he is no longer the respected scientist he once was.
 
"He's been arrested at least twice now, protesting oil sands and different environmental projects under the guise of stopping global warming," the editor says. "He's also been caught recently altering temperature data."
 
Morano says the best thing that can happen to science is to decentralize it, and not rely on the leadership of these science organizations that Morano says often leave members out of the decision-making process, not to mention they are "steeped in political correctness and deliver the best science that politics can manufacture."