Carbon tax cost added to family's funeral bill | News.com.au

A GRIEVING family claims that a cemetery slapped them with a $55 carbon tax bill for burying a relative - saying "even the dead don't escape the carbon tax" - just days after the tax was introduced.

Twitter / omnologos: Climate change is measured

Climate change is measured over many years. 'Journalist' comes from Latin for 'day'. Journalists can't understand climate change. QED

Twitter / RyanMaue: @Revkin Malkin is "conserv

@Revkin Malkin is "conservative" commentator ... will you label Michael Mann (or others) as a "progressive" or "liberal" climate scientist?

Twitter / RyanMaue: @Revkin seems climate scie

@Revkin seems climate scientists get pass on their political ideology -- it is central to their research choices, publicity, & point of view

Flu hits as cold snap chills state | Herald Sun

VICTORIA is shivering through one of its coldest starts to July in more than 15 years and the forecast is just as frosty.

The chilly conditions have led to a spike in the common cold, with 973 laboratory-confirmed cases since January 1, compared with 663 cases last year, health department figures show.

EU Parliamentarian Calls Germany’s Energy Policy “Senseless…Will Cost €2.3 Trillion To Reduce Temperature 0.003°C”

EU Parliamentarian Herbert Reul of Germany’s conservative CDU Party has produced a video about energy policy in Germany and put it up at Youtube and the Internet. His primary message: The isolated energy policy of the German government will cost Germans €2.3 trillion €. In numbers that’s €2,300,000,000,000. And for what? To brake a computer-simulated increase in global temperature a whole 0.003 °C. It is claimed that it serves to ‘protect the climate’.