Not So Hot - By Bjorn Lomborg | Foreign Policy

The new climate-change study getting all the headlines is deliberately misleading. Too bad so many in the media got fooled.
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September 26 was a triumph for public relations. An organization called DARA launched a report called "Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition. A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet." The study, sponsored by 20 countries, projected some astoundingly large impacts from climate change, both on the number of deaths and the economic impacts. The report has produced a media heyday for climate alarmism, but is a house of cards built on dubious analysis and erroneous claims.
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The DARA study uses a worst-case scenario, is full of sloppy errors, and promotes solutions that are hugely costly, haven't worked, and probably won't. And it's based on scare tactics without foundation in reality.

The climate debate deserves better.

Clinton Urged To Support ‘Robin Hood’ Tax To Fund Climate

(Bloomberg News) Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace joined 61 other charities, unions and campaign groups to urge U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to support a financial transaction tax to help fund the fight against climate change.

A transaction levy, or "Robin Hood Tax," could help fund $100 billion of climate change aid that developed countries have pledged by 2020, and extend to health care and education as well, the 63 groups said in a letter yesterday to Clinton that was e-mailed today by Friends of the Earth.