Meat processor slams carbon tax

A Queensland meat processor says its most efficient abattoirs will be hardest hit by the Federal Government's carbon tax.

Teys Brothers says it's hoping for government funding to help the company reduce carbon emissions.

Sky News: Swan talks up carbon compensation

'The fact is we've got to look our kids in the eye and say we did the right thing .... to reduce carbon pollution into the atmosphere, to combat dangerous climate change, but also to assist people with the price impacts of that.'

He could not say how much an advertising blitz about the compensation package would cost because it was still under government consideration.

Cyclical climate change in action: Desert fishing business booming | JunkScience.com

FLOODS have delivered so much water to southern states that a commercial fishery has sprung up near Lake Eyre, 1000km from the nearest ocean.

Jennifer Marohasy » How Many Polar Bears in Nunavut?

In summary we may live in The Information Age, but it’s sure hard to find meaningful information on population numbers for the iconic polar bear.  I’m not sure we have any real idea how polar bear population numbers are trending along the western shore of Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada or globally.

Articles: Unelected EPA Bureaucrats Approve E15 Ethanol

The vote was hailed by the American Enterprise Institute, and over at MSNBC we read: "'Corn ethanol is extremely dirty,' Michal Rosenoer, biofuels manager for Friends of the Earth, said in heralding the tax credit's demise."

It turns out, however, that the EPA never intended to slow its push for more ethanol production; in fact, it is required by law to increase ethanol use.  The ethanol industry didn't need subsidies because it had something more valuable: legislation known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that creates a guaranteed marketplace for ethanol.