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On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age. Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)
Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference. Read more here. (2)
Not Evil Just Wrong
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Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time … Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)
Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness. Read more here. (1)
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Posted by jennifer, July 11th, 2009 - under News, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, People
James Delingpole talks to Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, whose new book shows that ‘anthropogenic global warming’ is a dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction, a ‘first-world luxury’ with no basis in scientific fact. Read more here.
Hmmm, The Spectator. “Champagne for the brain”, declares the banner, top of the page. All froth and no substance.
Double hmmmm peterd. “All froth and no substance. ”
Champagne is for happy occasions, which is a state of mind misery guts alarmist don’t understand. Unless, of course, inflicting CPRS’s on the great unwashed is your idea of laugh.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Champagne-On-The-Brain—The-Benefits-Of-A-Glass-Of-Bubbly&id=649653
Who knows, champagne might even work your case!
Triple hmmm. I’m not averse to a good laugh. I think myself that it is the contrarians who lack a sense of humour. I note that some of the research was done in Italy.That’s good enough for me. Now I can read and knock back the champers with a clear conscience while showing I have a sense of humour by laughing at the rubbish contained in the Plimer book.