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Australians are the latest citizenry of a western country to turn against climate change catastrophism. For the first time, according to a Lowy poll released this week, a majority of the population turned thumbs down to the proposition that "global warming is a serious and pressing problem. We should begin taking steps now even if this involves significant costs." This rejection applied to younger segments of the population as well as old, especially disappointing to decision makers, given their efforts to indoctrinate youths through the educational system.

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The City of Toronto today unveiled a clever new program, called HEAT, through which high-rise apartment dwellers get to pay for the home insulation of their low-rise neighbours. Apartment dwellers don’t consume much energy compared to house owners, the city undoubtedly reasoned, making the HEAT program (for Home Energy Assistance Toronto) of little use to the renters. Plus, since apartment dwellers already pay much more than their share of property taxes, having renters contribute a bit more so that homeowners may benefit merely continues a well established principle.

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Great Britain has been the world’s biggest booster of man-made climate change since the 1980s, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher decided climate change would be a convenient club with which to beat back the coal unions while promoting nuclear power. Her Labour Party successors, Tony Blair and now Gordon Brown, have pursued climate change policies with even greater zeal: It was the Treasury Department under Labour that produced the Stern Review, the first official analysis to predict economic Armageddon from climate change.

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FACT: The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its most recent report, in 2007, reported a "discernible human influence on global climate."

FACT: The primary reference standard for this IPCC finding is data from the UK’s Climate Research Unit, established at the University of East Anglia in the early 1980s to produce the world’s first comprehensive history of surface temperature.

FACT: Independent researchers, wishing to analyze this data, have for years attempted to obtain it, always without success.

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Earth could soon be entering a new Ice Age, according to scientists at Oregon State University and other institutions, in a study to be released this week by Science magazine.

"Sometime around now, scientists say, the Earth should be changing from a long interglacial period that has lasted the past 10,000 years and shifting back towards conditions that will ultimately lead to another ice age – unless some other forces stop or slow it," states a release from Oregon State University.

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When Lawrence Solomon invited me to join his blogging I thought it might be amusing and interesting. However, the appearance of Ian Plimer’s book “Heaven and Earth” opens a really useful subject of discussion.

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Global warming is not causing Himalaya’s famous Siachen glacier to melt, state geologists R K Ganjoo and M N Koul of Jammu University’s Regional Centre for Field Operations and Research of Himalayan Glaciology. The geologists, who call claims that global warming is rapidly melting Siachen "hype," reported their finding in "Current Science" after visiting the Siachen glacier to record changes in its snout last summer.

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Dennis Miiller show description: Lawrence Solomon, an anti-nuclear environmentalist, has written an important new book which explains how politics has has deviously mixed with science to drastically distort what "facts" are getting out to the public.  Dennis Miller interviews him in what turns out to be a very interesting discussion. Continue reading →

EXCERPT

House Hansard: Session 38:2, June 13, 2006

Oral Questions

1440

The Speaker: New question. The leader of the third party.

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Toronto: With the price of crude oil continuing its climb to hit a record high of $50 US per barrel this week, Canadian consumers are feeling the pinch at the gas pumps and gearing up for a winter of high heating costs. Analysts said yesterday that prices could keep rising because of a sharp rise in global demand, tight supplies and threats to output in petroleum-producing nations such as Iraq and Nigeria.

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