First look: ‘Hit on the head with a hockey stick’ – some selected emails from the recent NOAA FOIA release 2 years later | Watts Up With That?

Readers may recall this yesterday: NOAA releases tranche of FOIA documents – 2 years later. I have a few to share from CEI now.

Government to delay addressing climate change indefinitely | New Zealand

The Government’s stopped even pretending it wants to combat climate change with amendments it is making to the Emissions Trading Scheme, Green Party climate change spokesperson Kennedy Graham said today.

“Rather than pretend to have a plan to include agriculture, or increase prices for emissions, or to remove its discount for many polluters, the Government has deferred them all indefinitely.

“It would be a shock for any other Government to introduce such a self-defeatist piece of legislation but unfortunately it is business as usual for John Key’s Government. They don’t want to deal with climate change so, just as with the brain drain to Australia, unemployment and housing unaffordability, they are simply ignoring it.

New York's City Council Adds Climate Change Panels - NYTimes.com

The exodus of City Hall aides has already begun as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s term approaches its end next year, but climate change isn’t going anywhere. So in an attempt to continue Mr. Bloomberg’s environmental focus long after he’s gone, the City Council passed legislation on Wednesday that would make two panels advising the city on the threats of global warming a permanent fixture of government.

The bill, approved 44-0, will “institutionalize and regularly convene” both a panel of scientists known as the New York City Panel on Climate Change and a task force of government agencies and partners from the energy, telecommunications and other private sectors in charge of recommending how the city should adapt to more frequent storms and heat waves. Under current projections by the scientific panel, sea levels around New York will rise nearly five feet by the end of the century, posing an increased risk of major and more frequent coastal flooding.

Enviros want climate question at Obama-Romney debate - The Hill's E2-Wire

Environmentalists are trying a new strategy to bring climate change into the 2012 White House race: Work the refs.

The League of Conservation Voters has launched a petition drive pressing the moderator of the first presidential debate, Jim Lehrer of PBS, to ask about the topic.