Lack of climate understanding: conference

 A report set to shape how Australia adapts to climate change assumes Australians accept and understand the science when many of us still don't get it, a federal government body says.

...Mr Comley said the commission's draft report was overly "sanguine", as it implied Australians broadly acknowledge the effects of climate change and are considering them in their plans for the future.

"I would argue that acceptance of the science is not widespread, either due to outright rejection or because while not rejected, it's not sufficiently internalised by key decision makers to practically influence their decision making," Mr Comley told the Climate Adaptation in Action Summit in Melbourne on Tuesday.

He said discussions with many people who didn't deal with climate change in their daily business had revealed that the issue, even if it was accepted as significant, was "implicitly absent" from their decision-making.

Al Gore’s favorite scientist fails miserably | TheBlaze.com

That’s plenty of time to debunk a fantastic fail of a prediction by global warming darling, Dr. James Hansen in episode 2 of Stutistics.

In 1988, Hansen predicted three different scenarios in regards to how the global temperature would be affected if we didn’t attempt to stop manmade global warming.  He failed.

See the details here–and thank you for not printing my blog…you just saved the entire environment from catastrophic global warming. Congratulations.

Climate Common Sense: Million dollar fines for political posters! Book-burning next!

In a jack-booted approach to silencing criticism of the carbon tax Labor has threatened businesses with million dollar fines for saying that the carbon tax will increase prices ,a fact which is obvious to anyone who is not brain-dead . This is political censorship of the worst kind by a government terrified of  the electoral effects of this stupid tax. Threatening small business in this way is a sure way to alienate them and their customers .

Terence Corcoran: Post Rio+20 Sustainable Development: RIP? | FP Comment | Financial Post

Overall, Mr. Halle’s commentary reads almost like an obituary of sustainable development itself, but certainly it’s an RIP for the global movement as currently structured. Nobody involved in the sustainable development industry can read Mr. Halle’s words without seeing them as writings on  a gravestone.

Kenneth P. Green: Postmodern Climatology: Paltridge Weighs In | JunkScience.com

“It’s not a coincidence that activist climate scientists don’t simply stop at defining the climate system and offering up even-handed, philosophically diverse thoughts…. They virtually invariably come to the very same policy proposals that are deeply left-leaning and are basically a carbon-repacking of a dozen other pre-existing, left-liberal policy dreams.”