ITALIAN SENATE CALLS FOR RE-ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE POLICY, IPCC

The Italian Senate stands for climate realism. A motion passed on last Wednesday commits the Italian government to promote a sound discussion on climate policies with the European Union and the United Nations, with particular regard to the major changes that have occurred after the economic recession, the Climategate scandal, and the failure to reach a global deal in Copenhagen.

In fact, the Senate asks both that the current commitments under the EU climate and energy package are re-negotiated, and that an independent investigation is started on the IPCC process writes Carlo Stagnaro, Research Director of the Italian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni.

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CHANCE TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH POLICY HAS COME AND GONE

However sweet the rhetoric about combating global warming, the cold reality is this: comprehensive climate legislation, which US senators will unveil next week, is unlikely to pass into law this year, says Tom Switzer in The Australian

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NO, DR GLIKSON ANSWER THE QUESTION

Joanne Nova at Quadrant Online  writes "Dr Andrew Glikson says the right motherhood lines [see: Case for Climate Change]: he talks about empirical evidence, and wants evidence based policies. All this is good, yet he sidesteps the main point — what exactly is the evidence for the theory of man-made global warming?"

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THE TRUE NATURE OF SCEPTICS

Professor Frank Furedi of the University of Kent makes some observations in The Australian about the conduct of the debate on climate science. 

Ever wondered why this observation can almost exclusively be applied to only one side of the debate?

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COLDEST WEATHER FOR 30 YEARS IN UK

Laura Roberts writing for the UK Telegraph highlights the connection between solar activity and periodic climatic changes.

After enduring the coldest winter for 30 years, you might have been hoping for some respite from the cold weather.  However, scientists are now warning that Britain can expect to endure a series of extreme winters - the like of which have not seen for more than 300 years. 

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MAURICE NEWMAN IS DEAD RIGHT ABOUT THE ABC

John Styles at the website The Australian Spectator writes:  Almost two years ago, ABC1 presenter Tony Jones told Crikey publisher Eric Beecher and a Melbourne audience that between 2001 and 2008 the members of the Lateline team made up their minds about the science of climate change. The sceptics, they’d decided, were wrong.

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