Friday, March 30, 2012

Australian brown coal generators snare bulk of $1 bln carbon [dioxide scam] grants

CANBERRA, March 30 (Reuters) - Australia's three biggest polluting brown coal-fired electricity generators will share A$760 million ($780 million) in government cash grants to help
them adjust to a price on carbon, Australia's Climate Change Department said on Friday.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: A Loss of Trust in Institutions of Science Among US Conservatives

It is therefore in the scientific community's best interests to address the declining trust among conservatives. The answer does not lie in trying to turn conservatives into liberals or otherwise vanquishing them from the political landscape as some in the science wars seem to think is possible. As conservatives are going to be a part of the social landscape for a long time, their trust in scientific institutions is important. How to rebuild that trust should be front and center in public institutions of science.

Carbon Dioxide Was Hidden in Ocean during Last Ice Age | Climate Realists

TEHRAN (FNA)- Why did the atmosphere contain so little carbon dioxide (CO2) during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago? Why did it rise when Earth's climate became warmer? Processes in the ocean are responsible for this, says a new study based on newly developed isotope measurements.

The New Nostradamus of the North: EU turf fighting could - hopefully - delay the launch of the UN Green Climate Fund

And as always, when UN and EU representatives and diplomats are planning how to waste taxpayers´ money on some new (mostly useless) international project, the process begins with fierce turf fighting about who is going to get the seats and (highly paid) jobs in the new international bureaucracy created for the purpose:

The Reference Frame: Record temperatures and female Fields medalists

So while the shift of the mean value by 0.8 °C can make a big impact on newspaper articles and graphs that try to spread the climate panic, rational people know very well that the actual impact of these asymmetries on anything that really matters in our lives is totally negligible.

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