EU emissions targets 'difficult' - The Irish Times - Tue, Jan 18, 2011

THE NEW Climate Change Response Bill, when enacted, would provide a framework for developing a new strategy to achieve “difficult” EU targets, according to Dr Mary Kelly, director general of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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“We need radical changes in practice in all economic sectors particularly energy, transport and agriculture, and in our own lives,” she said in an end-of-year statement for 2010, in which Ireland’s environment is described as “high quality”.

Global warming is dead, let's move on | The Australian

Here in Australia, we also did our bit, big time. We declared global warming the great moral challenge of our generation. We talked confidently about doing something or other. (OK, I can't remember what it was, and we never actually did it, but then we talked about doing something different . . . though maybe not straight away.)

Anyway, it worked, because last year was the coldest year since 2001.

Al Fin: You're Going to Look Pretty Stupid When the World Ends

Apocalyptics who do not happen to be religious tend not to realise or believe that they fall into the category of apocalyptics at all. You might even call them apocalyptic deniers. Which highlights the fact that humans are not actually rational creatures. They all have religions, even if they are unwilling to call them by that name.

Climate Lessons: Is 'Cuddly Green' a Trojan Horse for 'Nasty Fascist' in our schools?

...A more alarming, and longer-term, impact is surely to be expected from the deliberate frightening of children in schools with talk of doom and gloom, and of how humans and their industrial technologies are such a problem.
But there is also something there which can, or ought to, frighten adults - especially any who are familiar with the wars and revolutions in or near Europe in the 20th century. Leftwing movements in the Soviet Union and in Germany in particular led to totalitarian regimes which engaged in destructiveness on a massive and heart-rending scale. The National Socialists in Germany were particularly emphatic about going back to Nature.