Sunday, June 24, 2012

Carbon tax fails to sell

TONY Abbott's campaign against the carbon price appears to have worked: two-thirds of people say they will be worse off after it is introduced next Sunday.

Twitter / KHayhoe: [taking unnecessary fossil-fueled long-haul flight to Europe]

Looking forward to heading to the UK in a couple of weeks - 4 days at Cambridge, 3 in London. Just going to miss the Olympics :(

Arnold ‘Terminates’ commitment to Rio Earth Summit | Grist

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron were both big no-shows during the Rio Earth Summit this week, but in the surest sign that this party was a bust, even former Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger decided not to come.

Rio+20 Earth Summit: campaigners decry final document | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, said a "red/green alliance was the only way forward".

The readers' editor: the perils of the fact box| Stephen Pritchard | From the Observer | The Observer

It concerned a single line in a fact box on the loss of Arctic ice that caused such a storm in the blogosphere it obscured the urgent warning of the magazine piece it accompanied – and offered an open goal to those who deny that climate change is occurring. The box read: "Of the Arctic sea ice, 75% has been lost over the past 30 years. Last year saw sea ice levels plummet to the second-lowest since records began."

"This is completely untrue and liable to distort readers' understanding of one of the most important issues facing the world – just how serious a problem is 'global warming'?" wrote one sceptic.

Lord Monckton: Rio+20 Hypocrisy and UN/Eco-Fascist Psychological Warfare Against Children - YouTube

Alex Jones interviews Lord Christopher Monckton on the hypocrisy of the UN's Rio+20 Conference and the on-going eco-brainwashing agenda against children and youth to train them to hate humanity and freedom and exalt totalitarianism in the name of saving "Mother Earth."

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