global warming

Rudd to Everyone: Drop Dead

Submitted by Rick Eyre on December 15 2008, 1:06 pm

5% reduction in carbon emissions by 2020. (Maybe 15% if the rest of the world pitches in.)
$4 billion compensation package to the coal industry.
Stacks of free emissions permits on offer.
Emissions from logging/deforestation exempt.

More later. Pardon me while I take my shoes off...

Testemunha de terra 3: Acting at a glacial pace

Submitted by Rick Eyre on July 10 2008, 3:49 pm

We're reliably informed that the spectacular breaking of ice from the Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina on Monday has little to do with global warming, and more to go with the glacier's alignment.

Still, it's 91 years since ice has broken from this glacier during an Argentine winter. Video from Reuters: