Australian Climate Madness: Climate expert Hugh Jackman to speak at climate forum

If this was the other way round, a celeb speaking at a climate sceptic forum, the media would be having a field day. The air would be thick with ad hominem digs about how he or she was not a climate scientist, or they are otherwise not qualified to speak, or ridiculing them for not understanding the issues, or criticising them for becoming involved in political matters, or… or… But because this fits in perfectly with the media's built in alarmist bias, it's all hushed admiration and fawning news reports
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A voice for a billion people. Modest as always, Hugh.

Mission Accomplished by Will Alexander | Climate Realists

The whole climate change issue is rapidly disintegrating. There is no possibility of a meaningful agreement being reached at Copenhagen for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. The developing nations have made it clear that combating poverty and increasing the welfare of their citizens are higher priorities.

I have one more task before I pack my bags. It is to assemble all my digital material, copy it onto DVDs and make it available to university archives and others who have a close interest. Details are in the attached memo 29/09.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Pork for airports now at $1 million per daily flight

For 12 passengers a day, all GVA needs is a Quonset hut and a desk with a telephone. Only the federal government would spend $2 million on a building that gets 12 people a day passing through it. It’s these kind of decisions that make people uneasy about government running, oh, say, the entire health-care system.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The obligatory “Wolf Blitzer utterly destroyed on Celebrity Jeopardy” clip

Needless to say, my faith in the total intellectual superiority of the mainstream media has been shattered.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The valley hope forgot

This is yet another example of radical environmentalists inflicting unnecessary damage to farming and property rights.