Weak Rio+20 Agreement Anticipates New Noah’s Ark | Inter Press Service

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 23 2012 (IPS) - The downpour that fell Friday in this Brazilian city was nature’s warning to the heads of state meeting at the Rio+20 summit. The generation of Noe (Noah), an environmentalist’s son who will be born a month from now, will have to save biodiversity that is more complex than that of his Biblical namesake.

Climate Common Sense: Sanity finally prevails as solar rebates slashed.

Campbell Newman ,aka Can-Do Newman, the newly elected Premier of Queensland is slashing feed-in tariffs from 44 cents per Kwhr to 8 cents for new installations . In Queensland one third of houses have solar panels getting free or vastly reduced power parasitically at their neighbor's expense . In a brilliant move Newman is honoring current contracts but making them non-transferable on sale or rental of the home.

Walter Russell Mead: Ignore The Greens And Innovate, And You Will Cut CO2 | JunkScience.com

Ignore the greens and innovate, and you will cut carbon. Pay a lot of attention to them, spend a lot of money — and you will keep carbon emissions unchanged.

- Bishop Hill blog - Will Hutton's Rio postmortem

Will Hutton, a stockbroker turned left-wing talking head, reviews the climate debate in the aftermath of the Rio conference. It's mostly fairly ill-informed:

Al Fin: Coal Will Be Thriving Long After Obama Is Gone

Obama's misguided war against coal -- along with his war against all other forms of viable energy -- mark him as a political activist rather than a true leader. Obama's war against energy and against the US private sector has led to a stagnant economy with very slow job creation.