Great season but climate change brings snow blindness

''It's the best since 2000 in terms of snow quality,'' Reggae Elliss, the editor of ChillFactor magazine and a long-time Thredbo resident, says.

''It's been consistent because the season started early. We had really good snow in June and it stayed cold for a long time.''
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Elliss says the business operators and resort personnel in the area err on the conservative side when it comes to climate change thinking.

''I think they would like to believe the sceptics, but it's pretty bloody obvious to me,'' he says. ''It's real. You can be in denial about it all you want.''

Councils can jettison UN sea-rise rules | The Australian

THE O'Farrell government will ditch UN sea-level rise predictions as the basis for coastal management, after local council decisions based on what climate change might do by the end of the century shattered waterfront property values.

Attendance at climate change conference a costly business | The Australian

TAXPAYERS have picked up the bill to send a 21-strong delegation to a UN climate change conference in Bangkok, with all the departmental staff travelling business class.

The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency confirmed yesterday it sent 17 delegates to represent Australia at the conference; another four were sent by other government agencies.

COMMUNITY COMMENT: [Do things Al Gore's way, or civilization itself will be destroyed.  Muhahahahahahahahahahah!]

Many of the speakers at Climate Reality Project training began or ended their presentations with pictures of children they loved.
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Renewable energy such as wind and solar get cheaper every day. Fossil fuels get more expensive. It's an easy choice. The other option? Destroying our civilization and our children's future.