$1.5m for climate chiefs

Labor has revealed that the five Climate Change "experts" will be paid an average of $300,000 each and these are the people who will brief the Citizen's Assembly who will then find a consensus on the issue.   Leading Aussie skeptics Bob Carter and Ian Plimer need not apply , although I would love to see them do so.

Gillard and Abbott Neck and Neck

The gamble by Labor in changing from Kevin Rudd to Julia Gillard and then calling a snap election may be coming unstuck. After the initial honeymoon with Australia's first female PM ,voters now have the two parties at 50% each ,two party preferred ,with the momentum now with the Coalition as damaging internal leaks have blunted  the Labor party campaign.

The Pathological Hierarchy of Humbug

Melanie Philips , one of my personal favourites,  writes that the Global Warming cult is a middle class phenomenon among people sufficiently high in the  Maslow "needs list" that they can afford the time to philosophise about it.

Green Power - Western Economies Committing Economic Harakiri.

The foundation on which the modern industrial society has grown has been cheap and  portable energy.
A flick of a switch powers our lights and our homes and electricity powers our industry , manufacturing goods which allow modern living standards far beyond anything contemplated by our ancestors .

Australian Election - Game on!

Tony Abbott narrowly won the first and only election debate according to expert journalists but lost according to the TV worm which seems to gauge very little as the needle swings often before the candidates start talking. However Abbott looked and spoke like an alternative Prime Minister and has put his campaign back on track. The latest Newspoll confirms this with Labor's primary support dropping below the Coalition while they are still ahead on the two-party preferred vote.
A major factor in the coming weeks will be the new TV campaign of the junior mining companies against Gillards mining tax which was so damaging to Kevin Rudd.

PM vows to ban 'dirty' power stations- Labor's Non-Policy on Climate

Julia Gillard has vowed to stop the building of inefficient coal power stations in her climate change policy release.
JULIA Gillard will ban new coal-fired power stations that use "dirty" technology and require that any power station built can be retro-fitted with developing clean coal technology.

The Prime Minister has also committed $1 billion over 10 years to create an “efficient and strongly regulated” national renewable energy market.
And, in a speech at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Ms Gillard has also pledged $100 million to fund market-based projects designed to develop renewable energy technology.
“We will never allow a highly inefficent and dirty power station to be built again in Australia,” she said.
“If we are reelected, Labor will ensure that all new power stations have to meet world's best practice.”
Wow!This will really upset those authorities feverishly planning to build very inefficient and world's worst practice power stations . Talk about stating the obvious.
Ms Gillard said she wanted to ensure that during her search for a national consensus on climate change action that the nation did not “lock in” new power stations or energy sources that would last 30 years and continue to contribute to pollution.
She has advocated setting up a Climate Change Commission comprising 200 voters who will be "advised" by "selected" Climate Change "experts". Gee, I wonder what conclusion you could expect from such a set-up as I suppose Dr Bob Carter and Professor Ian Plimer won't get an invitation!

More Alarmist Hypocrisy - Please Stop Me From Flying!

Timothy Egan in the New York Times flew across the country to Washington to bag Senator Inhofe for not constructing a greenhouse because it is hot in Washington , and to lobby for laws to stop people like himself flying across the country .

Marmot Multiplication From Warming.

Marmots in Colorado are benefiting from a warmer climate and their numbers have increased dramatically. Every year, scientists fan out across Colorado's Upper East River Valley to count the yellow-bellied marmots that make their home there in rocky meadows bordered by aspen, fir and spruce trees.

Over the last decade, the work has gotten more tiring. Now they know why — the population of squirrel-like critters has exploded due to environmental changes brought on by global warming, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature.
The LA Times is having great difficulty in seeing any good coming from Global Warming with the first positive line followed immediately by a disclaimer : High temperatures are driving a population boom for the squirrel-like creatures, a study finds. and then:Researchers say the animals' fortunes will probably be reversed as their habitat gets hotter.
Of course It's a rare example of animals benefiting from the higher temperatures
So for any budding warmist journalist that is the way you report news of positive warming outcomes. 

Prince Attacks Pseudo-Science

Prince Charles, that living example of the perils of centuries of Royal inbreeding has attacked climate change sceptics in a speech at St James Palace. 

Reduce Carbon Footprint - Flush Granny Down the Sewer

Belgium is considering a new process called resomation for dissolving corpses in an eco-friendly way. I suppose we could have a moving ceremony when we pull the  chain and send Granny on her way and every year place some flowers at the local sewage-processing plant. A wall erected there where an engraved plaque could be attached would also be a nice touch.They haven't yet arrived at a pit full of lime and a bulldozer for efficient mass disposals  but give them time, as anything is posssible in this alternative universe into which we seem to have slipped! Of course you have to look on the bright side because the green bureaucrats have not yet started calculating carbon footprints of Nursing homes or the benefits to Gaia of premature liquefication of the feeble Grannies of this world.