GREEN LOANS LATEST EXAMPLE OF CLIMATE WASTE

Nicola Berkovic writing in The Australian highlights yet another phenomenal waste of money, time and effort in near worthless or at best questionable 'green' programs initiated to appear to be 'doing something' for the environment.

"A myriad of problems has forced the government to axe another of its environmental programs - the $275 million Green Loans scheme."

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ADAPTATION, NOT DECARBONISATION IS THE WAY FORWARD

Nigel Lawson, chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has published an opinion article at the GWPF website on the need to accept some basic facts.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that actions speak louder than words. Nowhere is this truer than in global warming policy.

The world’s political leaders are ostensibly agreed that, if the planet is to avoid what is customarily misdescribed as ‘catastrophic climate change’, our economies and lifestyles will have to be decarbonised in short order.

At the same time, the major oil companies are devoting roughly 95 per cent of their massive capital investment spending to future oil and gas supplies, which they would scarcely be doing if they felt the future for oil and gas were in any doubt."

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AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CHRISTY

Thomas Fuller of examiner.com interviews Dr John Christy.

John Christy is an atmospheric scientist and Professor of same at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and winner of achievement awards from NASA and the American Meteorological Society. He was a lead author of the IPCC's 2001 Assessment Report, but in 2007 was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying, "I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see."

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CARBON TAX - SIGNPOST TO THE NEW DARK AGE

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that a carbon tax was the next likely battle in the long war on carbon.

GREEN CATASTROPHISM COLLAPSES

Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post website thinks that world leaders may be starting to hear the message.

"Last week’s G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto and its environs confirmed that the world’s leaders accept the demise of global-warming alarmism."

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MET BUREAU HELPS VICTORIA WARM

Anthony Watts tells of a retired school principal he met on his Australian tour who has an eye for graphs.  Ken, the school principal, was alarmed at a Bureau of Meteorology graph which showed a strong warming trend for Victoria.

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