Sky News: Alcoa crisis due to carbon tax, Abbott

'We now know that there is going to be a carbon tax bailout of the Point Henry smelter. I fear this is going to be the first of many and the advice the coalition has is that the quantum of the bailout almost exactly matches the Alcoa smelter's carbon tax bill,' Mr Abbott told reporters in Melbourne on Sunday.

'The best thing you could do for the jobs at Point Henry is scrap the carbon tax because plainly the carbon tax is nothing but a jobs killer when it comes to the energy-intensive industries of Australia.'

Carbon [dioxide hoax swindle scam] tax compo 'for $150,000 families' | PerthNow

TREASURER Wayne Swan said around 98 per cent of Australian households earning up to $150,000 a year will receive some assistance for the carbon tax, new modelling shows.

Jennifer Marohasy » Abbot and Marohasy Join Chinese Climate Science Community

climate science in the land of the Eucalyptus has since lost its way. Climate science in Australia is now up a blind gully looking for carbon dioxide. Consensus scientists in the west are so obsessed with carbon that they want it taxed: carbon will be the first element in the periodic table ever to be taxed.

But not in China where scientists are too busy publishing the findings of real scientific research.

Freezing temps forecast for Oregon

Sea level predictions float higher | The Courier-Mail

More severe weather events are expected to accompany higher sea levels, and a major earthquake in northern California could cause a sudden sea level rise of one meter (yard) or more, the report said.

Gina more like SMH than its own staff | thetelegraph.com.au

When I arrived at the Herald it was controlled by a handful of hard-Left enforcers who dictated how stories were covered, and undermined management at every turn.

"At one extreme, they could be likened to the KGB's Cambridge recruits at MI6," recalls former editor in chief Alan Revell.

"More generously, I think they saw themselves as 'the keepers of the flame', whose job it was to resist the approach that I (and others) had, which was to encourage a 'broader church' of opinion.