- Bishop Hill blog - Talkfest podcast

I particularly recommend the segment by Felicity Mellor (from 11 min). It's striking that her research, which informed the BBC's review of science coverage, shows that the BBC has rarely sought balancing views in its science coverage. The BBC appears to have concluded from this that even less coverage should be sought from dissenters from the climatologicial mainstream.

Change in the wind | Pakenham Gazette | Star News Group Local News, Sport, Entertainment

Mr Griffin also recounted an anecdote about a farmer who likened the carbon-farming initiative to gay marriage and said “it wasn’t for him.”

“It’s hard to tell how it will affect in terms of monetary values,” Mr Griffin said.

“Dairy Australia estimates dairy farmers’ costs will increase $4000, Australian Farmers Institute estimates closer to $6000.”

Bjorn Lomborg on the Rio Green Summit: Poverty Pollutes - The Daily Beast

But today the term ["sustainability"] is code for global warming and similar concerns. In a remarkably honest Reuters interview, Brazil’s chief Rio+20 negotiator, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, says the summit’s “sustainable” branding is deliberate: “Sustainable development is an easier sell globally than climate change, even though sustainable development is a way of tackling global warming and other environmental issues.”

The Inconvenient Skeptic » Stopping the Regulation of CO2 by the EPA

According to the NASA Earth Observatory the natural annual carbon cycle of the Earth is 210 Billion metric tons of carbon.  In terms of emissions that is 770 billion tons of CO2 that are naturally emitted each and every year without any contribution by mankind.

In contrast, the United States has produced an average of 2.1 billion tons of CO2 per year by the use of coal.  That accounts for an entire 0.2% of the carbon dioxide that is produced by nature each year.  It is absurd to rule that any emission that stands at 0.2% of the natural emissions could be considered hazardous.