Thursday, March 29, 2012

LAT: A small step forward for Earth | JunkScience.com

Too stupid for words: “The EPA’s new emissions standards, which would rule out building new coal-fired power plants, are something to be grateful for in an election year.

Fossil raindrop impressions imply greenhouse gases loaded early atmosphere | JunkScience.com

Certainly an imaginative piece of work

EU Referendum: Dying the death

But when it comes to public interest, or the scale of the media event, the figure for "sources" tells you what you need to know. With hardly any "big name" newspapers on the list, this tells you that the issue is effectively dead. A high-profile issue, where the media is really excited in the topic, will get anywhere between 2-4,000 sources. This story gets a mere 297.

But the regulatory half-life is what really matters now. As we have observed before, this is what is going to do the damage, as the political classes and the interest groups reap their rewards for a successful scare. The evidence builds, though, that as a scare, "climate" is dying the death.

The public barely cares any more.

Fellow Earthians: Greens' bizarre psyche revealed | Australian Climate Madness

And finally, if you think this was just Brown off on a frolic of his own, Christine Milne defends the speech in The Australian today, calling it "very inspiring". Says it all, really.

“Planned Retreat” dumped | Climate Nonconformist

But of course, the people are too stupid to make their own decisions and have to be told what to do by an all-knowing local government who have the infinite wisdom of the IPCC to back them up.

Now NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell looks set to ditch the policy of planned retreat.

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