Green pressure groups get €66 million from the EU

It is not a good thing for Governments to fund their own organisations to get the answers they want as in funding for Global Warming research, but is much worse when the Government , in this case the EU funds private pressure groups. Support to the tune of more than 8 million euros has flowed to Green groups that then pressure the EU for more unsustainable green policies.These are the same organisations that complain bitterly about paltry support given to skeptic causes.

How to get carbon-free power in Australia - Ignore Reality!

The Green Left Weekly has a plan for Australia to be carbon free by 2020. We simply have to change over from nasty coal power to solar and wind power with a 60/40 per cent ratio with a little bit of hydro thrown in and we would all be living in Green Utopia in harmony with Gaia.

The Empire Strikes Back

With all the self-congratulatory skeptical blogs detailing the end of the AGW hoax , it is sobering to search Google News for Global Warming on  the current day and look at the results. Climate Change yields similar figures .At the height of Climategate and Pachauri affairs at least half of the news items were skeptical or grudgingly about skeptics views. In the space of the last few weeks that has all changed and you can sometimes get 50 items without a skeptical article. Unless this can be turned around our battle will be lost in cyberspace. The establishment and the MSM is rolling on with it's main body of science is solid and who cares about Climategate attitude and it seems that Climategate is no longer newsworthy.

ACTU launches anti-Tony Abbott TV campaign - ALP Must be Worried

The ACT , the Labour Party's attack dog, is launching an attack on Tony Abbott similar to the Work Choices campaign which was run last election. The rise and rise of Abbott must have ALP strategists worried to start the ads this early in the election cycle.
In other news unhelpful to the Government another boatload of 83 refugees is on the way to Christmas Island which is already overcrowded.

Cameron's Renewable Energy Focus is a Disaster

Christopher Booker asks the question with the Conservatives under Cameron trying to out-do Labour in Green idiocy. With some experience in power system planning it is easy to see that the Conservative plan is heading for disaster as the base load generation will never be replaced by renewables. What people should understand is that especially in a place like the UK in winter ,when the power goes off , people ,especially the poor ,will die .

Rudd is Moving Deckchairs on the Titanic - Roll Out Troubles Roll On

The full impact of the insulation roll-out debacle will not be solved by creating another bureaucratic department of 700 staffers but it is not surprising Rudd would see that as a solution given his background.
On Tuesday, the new Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency will officially employ them, after Mr Rudd's decision to remove the home insulation responsibilities from Peter Garrett and his Environment portfolio.

States at Sea over Coastal Levels

The various States of  Australia are having problems with estimated levels of mythical AGW-generated sea level rise to be used in development applications with Victoria and Queensland plumping for 80 cm , and South Australia going for 1 metre. In other parts of Wonderland The Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts have not made their estimates yet . The Junior Minister for Climate  Change Greg Combet is so concerned with the problem that he has bought a sea-side home to observe it close-up.  I guess he has a Canute chair to sit on as Plan B when shutting down the Australian economy does not work.

Perth Water Supplies could halve by 2030 -Another Wong Prediction

Penny Wong is never one to miss the chance to preach catastrophe and with a large part of Eastern Australia under water defying earlier Wong predictions she has turned her eyes westward.

Tony Abbott in Budgie Smugglers on Anti-Global Warming Billboard

The Daily Telegraph reports on a giant billboard of Tony Abbott erected to oppose the Coalition's Global Warming policy. It may backfire as Abbott has been quite happy to push his super-fit image as part of his electoral campaign and probably would have donated if asked.. The billboard cost $100,000 which was raised by donations from believers.

Video Of the UK Parliamentary Committee Questioning Phil Jones

From Australian Climate Madness we have a five  part U-tube   video of Parliamentary Committee proceedings. Professor Jones looks very uncomfortable but was not grilled effectively because of the lack of technical expertise of the panel - on the skeptical side at least. If the investigation proceeds like this, skeptics claims of a whitewash will be well founded. Time will tell.