New Zealand may quit Kyoto | Stuff.co.nz

New Zealand has been tipped to quit the Kyoto Protocol, designed to cut global emissions.

Government officials next month travel to Doha in Qatar for the latest round of negotiations on the treaty, but with less than four weeks before the summit, acting Climate Change Minister Simon Bridges says the Government has "not made a decision" on its commitment.
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Market watchers say changes to the scheme do not look like preparation for the Government agreeing to new emissions reduction commitments that would kick in from the end of the year. They say low activity on the carbon market, despite bargain prices, are evidence carbon emitting businesses think the same.

Last week carbon prices dropped to about $1 a tonne for some types of credits, but the market was quiet, with emitters resisting the temptation to stockpile cheap credits for the future.

"I'm surprised people are not filling their boots," one market participant said. "People seem to be having a tough time believing the market is credible."

There is growing speculation the Government's silence is because it could save face internationally by waiting for big players like China and the US to refuse to sign up to the second Kyoto round, before following suit.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Corruption in China: The Ferrari-Red communists

Corruption in China has reached proportions that will in the end lead to a disintegration of the current authoritarian regime. Those in the West who refuse to recognize this, are doing a disservice both to their own countries and to the Chinese people, who would deserve something better than the present corrupted band of deeply corrupted communist leaders.

- Bishop Hill blog - The Signal and the Noise

Silver says that William Happer agrees that the world will tend to get warmer with increased CO2. Which is fine. But he then seems to spend much of the chapter trying to convince us that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. He tells us that the hypothesis deserves credit because it can be shown to have a cause. But this is to miss the point. The demand for a policy response is not predicated on CO2 being a greenhouse gas. It is predicated on it causing catastrophic warming. Sceptics mostly accept that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, we are arguing about how much warming and what the effects are and whether the whole thing is being hyped.

Extraordinary Alarmist Propaganda Destined for Our Classrooms – Part 1 « Tallbloke's Talkshop

I could hardly believe my eyes as I read this document from a supposedly reputable UK ‘science based’ agency. This is what people in positions of high trust and high public pay want to push into the minds of youngsters in Britain’s schools. The whole thing needs a thorough debunking, which we’ll undertake over a series of posts. When we’ve completed it, with references to scientific papers and the on the record statements of scientists, we’ll deliver this to the agency involved and report their response. Here’s the opening section.