Climate change sceptics call on Oxford to cancel lecture | The Oxford Student

An ultra-conservative American think tank has called for a ban on a lecture due to take place in Oxford next week.

...He has apologised for his role in the exposé, which revealed plans by Heartland to sway teaching of science to kindergarten children as part of its campaign to discredit climate science....Environmental journalist James Garvey has defended Glick’s behaviour, arguing that he acted in a way that served the “greater good”. He commented: “If Gleick frustrates the efforts of Heartland, isn’t his lie justified by the good that it does?”

Southern Africa to build climate change [hoax] centre

South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia signed a declaration to launch the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management in the Namibian capital Windhoek.

Set up with 50 million euros in German aid, the centre will streamline regional scientific research on climate change trends and on managing natural resources to deal with them.

EU Deadlocked Over Failing Carbon Market

Poland is insisting there should not be any “administrative meddling” that would prop up prices in the European Union’s carbon market – the world’s largest – on the eve of a special meeting on the troubled Emissions Trading Scheme.

According to a paper prepared for the meeting, the Poles intend to fight off moves by other countries to tackle the collapse in the price of permits traded in the system. Instead, Warsaw is proposing steps that would in some cases depress the cost further.

A hot-button issue | I Can Change Your Mind about Climate

ACCORDING to the ABC's online survey, my position on climate change is ''concerned''.

However, that makes me part of only 8 per cent of the population. By contrast, the overwhelming majority of the 12,000-plus people who have answered the survey so far are ''dismissive''.

Far more surprising than the dawning realisation that the climate-change deniers have been unleashed onto the survey is that none of the 16 questions is about science or facts on the environment. Rather, they relate to perceptions of the issue.