Keeping the ‘No Pressure’ Video Alive « NoFrakkingConsensus

Those who know more about these matters than I do may wish to undertake their own archiving efforts.

Carbon compo 'not enough' for poorest households - ABC Newcastle NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Physical Disability Council of New South Wales says over the last year it has been inundated with calls from people who are struggling to afford electricity.

The council's executive officer, Ruth Robinson, says people are already facing the choice between eat or heat.

Eight local councils are on Gillard Govt’s carbon tax hit list, Barnaby Joyce says | Australian Conservative

Apparently we are going to cool the planet from our rates notice. This tax is absurd. It will do nothing to change the temperature of the globe but will put up the cost of everything.

Red Brains, Blue Brains: Republicans Are Stupid - The Stupid Premise Of A Stupid Book

Science is indeed on trial and unfortunately Chris Mooney is testifying for the anti-science faction.

Carbon tax is a job killer everywhere

Hey California, listen up: Carbon taxes kill jobs.

This isn't a new discovery. It just takes some folks longer to get it than others.

Is Climate Change Real? For the Thousandth Time, Yes | KQED News Fix

BROOKS: So is there a concerted campaign to debunk climate change theory?

MILLER: Yes, and very well documented. [Where is this well documented?] There’s a very determined and well-funded attempt to forestall action on climate change by casting doubt on the science. This is a time-honored tradition in our country; think of the Tobacco Institute. It’s a page from that playbook, basically.

...But Hurricane Irene from 2011 may be a glimpse of the future. We’ve always measured hurricane strength by wind speed. And I think what we’re seeing is the new signature of hurricanes, which is not wind speed but precipitation. It’s the amount of sheer water in them. You know, as the oceans have warmed, there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere. And it’s waiting to fall out in these major storm events. And there were places along the hurricane path where they, along the track of that storm, which saw like a foot of rain in a day...Part of the problem is that scientists are notoriously poor communicators and they need to do better. Just recently I was watching Jane Lubchenko testify on Capitol Hill. And California Republican Dana Rohrabacher rolls out this GAO study where they had found that a large percentage of NOAA’s weather data stations around the country were in sub-optimal locations, and that might be affecting the quality of the data we’re getting from them. And she really didn’t have an answer for it. She gave a very poor answer when confronted with it.