AGL is merely stating the obvious, but the sooner the public becomes fully aware of this the better.

The emissions trading plan – the central plank of the Rudd Government’s environmental agenda – will have a “material impact” on AGL’s cost structure and those of other energy suppliers, the company’s chairman, Mark Johnson, warned shareholders yesterday.

All of which costs will be passed on to us, the long-suffering Aussie public.

Read it here.

Just when we were all getting used to the idea of “Skippy and Chips” in Garnaut’s post-climate change world, it transpires that the kangaroo population could be devastated by… wait for it… climate change. You really can’t make this stuff up.

A temperature rise of 2 degrees, which is likely by the second half of this century, would reduce the range of most kangaroo and wallaby species by half, the James Cook University study found.

However, the author of the study, Dr Euan Ritchie, was careful not to tread on Garnaut’s delicate toes:

Dr Ritchie said the study findings did not rule out the expansion of kangaroo farming.

I would like to see how farmers, resourceful as they are, would successfully profit from an extinct animal…

Read it here.

It’s so overwhelming – hundreds of articles about Penny Wong, and in each of them she’s spouting rubbish. It’s so difficult to choose… Anyway, Climate Penny, who has been on a carbon-fuelled jolly around Europe, has been speaking to students at the London School of Economics:

Australia will make money from its firm commitment to cut greenhouse gases and also by being quick to establish a carbon trading scheme, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has predicted.

There’s that same, utterly spurious, argument again about making money from climate change (whilst at the same time throwing billions of dollars down the drain). And perish the thought that we should wait and see what other countries decide to do…

Acknowledging Australia had an ”obvious need to make up lost ground”, she said, ”there is a deeper logic driving our ambition to have the carbon pollution reduction scheme up and running in 2010.

”It is a logic built on the Australian Government’s recognition that … it will be the countries that have moved to implement climate change reforms that will be best placed to deal with the global carbon constraint.”

“Make up lost ground”? In comparison to whom – New Zealand? Please explain. Read it here.

Both Italy and Poland, host nation for the climate change conference taking place in Poznan in December, are realising the economic and political costs of entering into emissions reductions schemes which, as has been said many times before, will achieve nothing. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was adamant:

“I have announced my intention to exercise my veto,” the Italian leader Wednesday told a press conference on the sidelines of the summit.

“Our businesses are in absolutely no position at the moment to absorb the costs of the regulations that have been proposed,” he said.

And Polish leaders were equally determined:

The foreign minister of Poland, heavily dependent on coal-fired power, said his country would resist attempts to railroad the targets through.

“This is a very intricate game and Poland is ready to introduce a veto if there will be attempts to force us to achieve an agreement on the climate package,” Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters.

Read it here.

Another example of news being ignored when it’s convenient to do so:

Remember all those dire warnings in the media of an ice-free North Pole this (northern) summer? Remember the British eco-explorer, Lewis Gordon Pugh, announcing he’d paddle to the Pole to draw attention to the frightening lack of ice?

But….

Has anyone in the main-stream media since told you that Pugh had to call off his plan, still 600 miles from the North Pole, when his kayak ran into too much ice?

Anyone in the media since told you there was in fact 9 per cent more ice at the Arctic this summer than there was last?

And is anyone in the media telling you that the refreeze at the Arctic this autumn is remarkably fast and widespread?

No-one’s telling us any of this, because it doesn’t fit in with the media’s alarmist agenda. Well done for keeping your readers informed of the other side of the story.

Read it here.

Professor Bob Carter will be speaking at Blacktown Workers Club on Friday 17 October 2008, at 1pm and 7pm – for free! This is a great opportunity to hear a well-known climate sceptic outline his arguments, and demolish some of the alarmists’ arguments.

Source.

Although we don’t call it “global warming” now, we call it “climate change”, which covers every possible eventuality. A journalist at the Northern Argus couldn’t resist the temptation to blame “climate change” for increased frosts in the Clare Valley, which are causing problems for winemakers.

And if anyone has had their doubts about climate change, [grapegrower] Martin Smith said the effects had been noticeable in the Polish Hill River region.

“We’d never seen frosts in more than 100 years here, and now we have had two years of frost, in 2005 and 2007, with dry years in between.”

That’s the wonderful thing about climate change – it’s so versatile! Read it here.

Publishers of the book version of Garnaut’s report, 680 pages of hot air, have had to purchase carbon credits in order to offset the damage its publication has caused to the environment. It would have been so much easier not to bother in the first place.

Read it here.

And why should they? They have more important things to worry about, like running their business in a time of economic crisis…

Read it here.

Hardly surprising, this is the ABC (Alarmist Broadcasting Corporation) after all. But concerning none the less, given the fact that this is a national broadcaster which informs a large proportion of the Australian population. Robyn Williams, presenter of a number of popular science programmes, was speaking to engineers at Gladstone’s Rydges Hotel, reported the “Gladstone Observer”:

He said his role as a journalist was to report the science that supported the theory behind global warming.

Strange, no word about reporting science that doesn’t…

Since that time [40 years ago] the science had been growing to a stage now where the debate is over.

He said the very best of science now claims climate change as fact.

I think we all know climate change is fact – it has been fact since the beginning of time – it’s the link to human activity we’re all arguing about. Anyway, for someone claiming to be a science journalist, he clearly has no understanding of what scientific investigation is about. Maybe he should go into politics. Read it here.