Head down, snouts in the trough.

Melbourne's mayor Robert Doyle is not one to spare expense , having spent a quarter of a million dollars for a new Melbourne logo (which was the letter M) . It is not surprising then that it has been  revealed that he spent $50,000 for a jolly in Copenhagen staying in a $1200 per night suite - all to help reduce Global Warming.

Longer-Running Electric-Car Batteries

Every cloud has a silver lining and the AGW scam ,while wasting trillions of dollars is actually promoting development of some useful technologies - better storage batteries being one of them. A new silicon nano-tube technology lithium battery holds out the possibility of increasing capacity of existing technology by ten times.

Bugger the sceptics – let’s start campaigning positively again!

 Crikey as most Warmist media do , arrogantly assumes that if the public understood the AGW propaganda they would of course support it. What they don't understand is that a lot of people do understand what they are hearing and think it is BS.

Home Insulation Fix To Cost 100 Million at Least!

SMH reports that the Government will spend up to $100 million in removing electrically dangerous foil insulation or installing electrical safety switches. I don't think at this time that they know the extent of the problem as the other types of insulation have been causing fire due to incorrect installation and over heating.

China: AGW is Real - Send Us Money

 From ABC online - China says that AGW is real but is really a problem caused by the West who should pay for it. The Chinese are so much smarter than the buffoons we send to negotiate with them - they must be laughing. While China is only paying lip-service to carbon reductions  they are watching Western nations in Europe and the US committing economic hari-kari. However if the West needs solar panels or wind generators which do not really work in a power grid they will sell them happily . Meanwhile Western money is subsidising new coal power stations being built at a frenetic rate in China while coal power station construction is stalled in the US and Europe.

ABC Chairman Maurice Newman must Explain

Friends Of the ABC are enraged that Chairman Maurice Newman would ask staff to be even-handed in their treatment of Climate Change.
“ABC Chairman Maurice Newman's criticism of the media's coverage of global warming is extraordinary and inappropriate,” said Glenys Stradijot, a spokesperson for Friends of the ABC (Vic).

“Mr Newman is entitled to his personal views on controversial matters. But his expression of them while he remains head of the ABC damages public confidence in the national broadcaster’s independence.
"Just as worrying, Mr Newman's comments look to be an attempt to influence ABC programming to be more favourable to global warming scepticism.”

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.