Headlines Saturday 2nd August

Protocols of the Elders of Carbon
Andrew Bolt
Associate Professor David McKnight not only links “climate change deniers” to Holocaust “deniers” and the cigarette lobby, but suggests they are corrupt, too:

The funding of an array of think tanks and institutes that house climate sceptics and deniers also worried Britain’s premier scientific body, the Royal Society. It found that in 2005 Exxon distributed nearly $3 million to 39 groups that “misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence that greenhouse gases are driving climate change”.
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Rudd changes what worked - and only because it did
Andrew Bolt
The reason Kevin Rudd could afford to slightly soften the country’s refugee policies - and kick former Prime Minister John Howard for his cruelty - is precisely because Howard’s policies worked, stopping the people smuggling rackets that cost so many people their lives:

At present there are 357 people in detention and only six are unauthorised boat arrivals.
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Indians aren’t scary enough for our uranium
Andrew Bolt
A former UN under secretary-general seems to think Kevin Rudd would sell uranium to Indians if they were Chinese instead:
Shashi Tharoor is surprisingly blunt. The Rudd Government is practising a type of “apartheid” by refusing to sell India uranium.
“There isn’t a rational reason for the Australian position, because Australia does sell uranium to nuclear weapons-producing states, including China.”
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Children, relax: the ice is still there
Andrew Bolt
In the Q&A after a speech I gave yesterday, one of the people in the audience told how his children had been left very scared about the warming doom being preached to them at school. They were convinced, for instance, that the polar caps were melting clean away.
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Rudd spins off the economic road
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd spent his first six months in office scaring voters about the inflation “demon” and swearing he’d be ”as tough as all hell” on spending in the Budget. Behind this strategy was pure politics - a desperate need to “prove” the Liberals under John Howard had actually been terrible economic managers.

Rudd’s rhetoric wasn’t quite matched by his actions - what a surprise - but consumer sentiment nosedived, leading me to suggest a month ago Rudd had miscalculated on the tough talk. But whether his toughness was just spin or substance, in the voters’ minds Rudd will be indentified indelibly as the prime minister who preached doom and slammed on the brakes. So as voters now hurtle through the windscreen, they may well ask whether jittery Rudd just braked too hard:

KEVIN Rudd has warned Australians to brace for tough economic conditions as he refused to rule out a recession driven by what he described as the most uncertain global financial conditions in three decades.
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Snowed by the CSIRO
Andrew Bolt
Skiers are ecstatic in August:

CARS buried at Falls Creek and Mt Buller, others abandoned on the Kosciuszko Rd and Alpine Way, massive snow drifts up high at Perisher and Thredbo, blizzard conditions, snowfall accumulations in excess of 40cm. As the big dump continues Friday, skiers are looking up at the scoreboard—with a 2m season well within our sights....Clearly, July 2008 has delivered the best consistent skiing conditions since the great 2004 season – and there is potential for a cold and snowy peak month of August.

But the CSIRO was gloomy in May:

Scientists say Australian skiers should prepare for shorter ski seasons because of global warming… CSIRO climate change expert Dr Penny Whetton says Australia’s mountain snow cover could be reduced by up to 54 per cent by 2020.
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IOC deepens its shame
Andrew Bolt
The IOC announces a breakthrough. Somehow it still involves breaking its most solemn promises:

Olympic organizers unblocked some Internet sites at the main press center and media venues Friday while others remained off limits for journalists covering the Beijing games.
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Uhlmann? Or another Faine/Jones/O’Brien/Marr/Adams?
Andrew Bolt
Peter Lloyd was about to be co-host of a new television news program on ABC2 with Virginia Trioli. But his arrest in Singapore on drugs charges left the ABC down one Leftist:

An ABC spokeswoman said the network has yet to name a replacement for Lloyd to act as co-anchor with Trioli.