David Spratt: The climate for Labor backflips | JunkScience.com

Spratt is the “Climate code Red” dude and a genuine climate hysteric. The one thing he has right is that Australia’s “carbon tax” and other “climate” moves are dead legislation waiting for the incoming Abbott government to remove them from the books.

‘Clash of the Titans’: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Battle | JunkScience.com

A legal storm in the energy industry that has been rumbling in the distance for three years is likely to come to a head this summer as petroleum refiners, ethanol producers and Washington lobbyists pursue their battle with state agencies in Sacramento.

- Bishop Hill blog - Wunsch on Nature

The money-quotes came late on when he talked about "the Nature-Science problem".  He seemed faintly disgusted by the lengths to which some climate scientists will go to get published in Nature or Science with the attendant publicity, media appearances and so on.  He sometimes found it difficult to tell which of the Daily Mail and Nature was the peer-reviewed journal and which the tabloid.  Nonetheless, he said, his colleagues  reassure him that just because something appears in Nature doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong.

Rod Adams: Has Apocalyptic Portrayal of Climate Change Risk Backfired? | JunkScience.com

During the Australian Broadcasting Company documentary titled I Can Change Your Mind About … Climate there is a scene where Anthony Leiserowitz (via Skype video) shares some of what he has learned during his research about climate change attitudes with Nick Minchin and Anna Rose, the show’s protagonists.