ACM’s favourite journalist, Rosslyn Beeby, tugs at the heartstrings, as “climate change” is set to wipe out another cute creature:

Nemo the clownfish will lose the ability to smell the way home, as climate change makes the world’s oceans more acidic, new research says.

A team of scientists from Australia, Russia and Norway have discovered that as seawater becomes more acidic, baby clownfish the stars of the Disney cartoon Finding Nemo lose the scent cues that guide them home from the open ocean to the coastal reefs where they were born.

”This is a disturbing finding, with potentially devastating consequences for marine life. It could lead to a decline in coastal reef species,” James Cook University marine biologist Philip Munday said.

In fact, the article uses the name “Nemo” no less than 5 times (including in the headline), just to ram home the point. And, of course, it’s all our fault:

“At least 30 per cent of the human-generated carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in the past 200 years has been absorbed by the oceans,” the paper says.

This has caused the ocean to acidify at a rate about 100 times faster than at any time in the past 650,000 years.

Read it here.

The Sydney Morning Herald (or as it now should properly be known, “Green Left Weekly In Drag”) fawns over Greens Senator Bob Brown (you know, the one who thinks CO2 emissions should be reduced to zero by 2050):

More than 1 million people voted for the Greens in the 2007 election and Brown scored more than 17 per cent of the Senate vote in Tasmania, where he has lived since 1972.

Before that, he grew up in rural NSW, a shy, dreamy child from a politically conservative family of police officers. He studied medicine at Sydney University and worked as a GP in Sydney, Canberra and London all the while battling bouts of depression as he came to terms with his homosexuality.

When he moved to Tasmania, he immediately felt at home among its wild landscape and old-growth forests. But it was a rafting trip down the Franklin River in Tasmania’s south-west wilderness in 1976 – and the subsequent seven-year anti-dams campaign – that was the making of Bob Brown.

And gives him a platform for the usual Green alarmism that we’re all familiar with:

“The world is in a pre-catastrophe situation with climate change and the destruction of a variety of life on the planet. In those circumstances, my work becomes all the more important. I’ve never been happier or more content,” he says.

Bizarre juxtaposition of ideas there…

Read it here.

In the big game of climate change there are no losers, just one big cash-guzzling winner. As inevitable as night follows day, scientists have claimed that the worst winter snow in London for thirty years is consistent with climate change. The UK’s Telegraph newspaper reports this under the faintly amusing headline:

Snow is consistent with global warming, say scientists

Yep, that’s right. Heatwaves mean global warming, snow means global warming, staying the same means global warming, [insert your own phrase here] means global warming (shurely “climate change?? – Ed). Isn’t it hilarious how none of these events ever means nothing at all (“it’s just weather”) or even possibly global cooling? Nope, it’s all the big AGW at work.

Even though this is quite a cold winter by recent standards it is still perfectly consistent with predictions for global warming,” said Dr Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

“If it wasn’t for global warming this cold snap would happen much more regularly. What is interesting is that we are now surprised by this kind of weather. I doubt we would have been in the 1950s because it was much more common.

Oh right, so if it weren’t for global warming this would happen more often? OK, got it. Brilliant.

Climate Madness.

Read it here.

They should be protesting against the fact that Krudd is pushing ahead with his pointless ETS when the economy is already on a near-vertical descent into recession, but instead it’s the usual religious dogma of “climate change” – CO2 must be cut dramatically, despite the fact that temperatures have been steady or falling since 2001, and CO2 has risen by 5% in the same period…

About 2,000 climate change protesters dressed in red [why? – Ed] formed a circle around Parliament House this morning.

They are calling on the Government to make deeper cuts to emissions in its proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme [two errors in four words – Ed].

Many say they are disappointed that the Government has not made deeper emission cuts in its proposed scheme.

Read it here.

UPDATE: Clearly some editor at Fairfax didn’t particularly like the fact that this article criticised the mighty Goracle, because, as pointed out by reader Magnus in the comments section, the link now redirects to an alarmist article:

“about the large threat of global warming, Al Gore’s point of views, Obama’s politics and the Danish prime minister who says we must cut CO2 emissions 80 percent by 2050.”

There is no trace of the original article on either WA Today or Brisbane Times websites. Sounds like censorship to me. You can still see the original article in the Google cache here.

UPDATE 2: “D” Word Alert: WA Today has re-issued the article in shortened form under the slightly less objective headline:

Czech president is climate change denier.

Here’s the original post:

It’s like a breath of fresh air. Compare and contrast the fawning over the Goracle at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing earlier this week with the home truths dished out by Vaclav Klaus:

“I’m very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them.

“Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement.”

Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, he said he was more worried about the reaction to the perceived dangers than the consequences.

“I’m afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world,” he said.

“I’m more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself.”

And you can see how the original Brisbane Times link redirects by clicking here.