Climate-change rebel bites back | The Daily Telegraph

[Monckton] Besides, corporations are falling over themselves to cash in on the giant financial fraud against the little guy that carbon taxation and trading have already become in the goody-two-shoes EU and will become in Australia if you get your way.

One-fiftieth of a Celsius degree of warming forestalled is all that complete, global compliance with the Copenhagen Accord for an entire decade would achieve.

Yet the cost of achieving this result - an outcome so small that our instruments would not be able to measure it - would run into trillions of dollars.

After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

I came back from the Copenhagen climate talks depressed for several reasons, but above all because, listening to the discussions at the citizens' summit, it struck me that we no longer have movements; we have thousands of people each clamouring to have their own visions adopted. We might come together for occasional rallies and marches, but as soon as we start discussing alternatives, solidarity is shattered by possessive individualism.

North India Reels Under Cold Wave, 154 Dead

Cold wave claimed 157 lives across north India even as its intensity slightly abated today after the sun came out lifting the fog and raising temperature in parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.

[India tries to cool the planet]: Cabinet likely to decide new price of ethanol this month | Top News

Kharagpur (West Bengal), Jan 5 : The union cabinet is likely to fix the new price of ethanol, required for blending with petrol to cut down on emissions, later this month.