Price of solar schools program is $284 a tonne

THE cost of cutting carbon under the government's Solar Schools program has emerged at $284 a tonne - 12 times the $23 carbon price - and could turn out to be higher still, the national auditor has found.

Chicago media discount climate change conference | Madison/St. Clair Record

Shame on the Chicago media for their dogmatic, closed-minded approach to global warming by choosing to stand with the Al Gore camp instead of doing their job and reporting on the real scientific and policy debates taking place right now over the causes and consequences of climate change.

Rio+20: Ahead of summit, U.N. report embraces 'boundaries' -- 06/06/2012 -- www.eenews.net

Indeed, there is a consensus, which includes many of authors of the original Nature paper, that the boundaries concept remains scientifically weak, is not grounded in physical limits -- except perhaps with climate change -- and has received far too much attention from the media, said Erle Ellis, a geographer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and co-author of the BioScience paper.

"Moreover, many [scientists] are convinced that focusing on the [boundaries] approach will weaken, rather than strengthen, the role of science in informing society in environmental decisionmaking," Ellis added.

New Kyoto climate change targets proposed for rich countries | RTCC

Rich countries signed-up to the Kyoto agreement on greenhouse gas emissions could have their targets doubled, under plans proposed to the UN.

Captain Combet prepared to go down | The Australian

GREG Combet has committed Labor to a bold and brave strategy through to the next election and beyond. Like a defiant Captain Ahab being dragged down with his Moby Dick nemesis, beckoning and cursing his damned crew and ship even after death, the Climate Change Minister has committed Labor, if defeated, to defy Tony Abbott's repeal of the carbon tax.