Aus: Climate change ‘irrelevant’ in coal mine decision | JunkScience.com

Queensland’s Land Court has recommended the state government approve Xstrata Coal’s massive new thermal coal mine at Wandoan, in the Surat Basin, and deemed objections based on the mine’s likely contribution to climate change as ‘‘irrelevant’’.

NYT: New Limit Pending on [power plant CO2] Emissions | JunkScience.com

After months of delay, the Obama administration is about to unveil the first federal standards to explicitly limit greenhouse-gas emissions from new electric power plants — one of the chief sources of carbon dioxide emissions linked to climate change.

NZ: Miners call for court to ignore climate change | JunkScience.com

Buller Coal and Solid Energy want the impact of climate change to be excluded from the decision-making process into whether consents should be issued for West Coast mining operations.

Antarctic Warming Changes Penguin Breeding Cycles | JunkScience.com

Highly suspect piece from Living Green. To begin with Antarctic sea ice is increasing, not decreasing and this has been the case for the last 50 years or so. Moreover the Antarctic Peninsula is not at all representative and the portion under discussion is not even in the Antarctic but protrudes north of the Antarctic Circle into the Southern Ocean.

The New Nostradamus of the North: "The compost bomb" - The new warmist "tipping point"

The need to continuously invent new "tipping points" seems to be an obsession for the global warming scaremongers. An Australian warmist yesterday introduced the latest one in London:

Veteran Meteorologist On PIK Greenland Scenario: “Oracle of Delphi…They’ve Opened Up The Seven Seals!”

Now is a good time to tell readers why the PIK’s model scenarios are a load of manure: First, we have models where nature always ends up doing everything completely different. What are model speculations for centuries and even millenia into the future worth when already the current trends are talking a completely different language?