Headlines Thursday 27th November

Mass murder in Mumbai
Andrew Bolt
Terrible news from Mumbai:
Over 60 people have been killed and many more injured in several terrorist attacks in Mumbai on Wednesday night. Two five-star hotels - Trident and Taj - are under siege and gunmen are reported to have held the occupants hostage.
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Warming to warming
Andrew Bolt
“Why then ‘tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” - Hamlet

A little pragmatism rather than apocalyptis would suit us better, too:

Robert Mendelsohn, an economics professor at Yale University, ... says the benefits of global warming for Canada - from a longer growing season to the opening up of shipping through the Northwest Passage - will outweigh the negative effects....

“If you add it all up, it’s a good thing for Canada."…
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Now our crime was letting Rau go
Andrew Bolt
Remember Cornelia Rau? Who was paid $2.6 million of your money in compensation because the racist Howard regime hadn’t figured out she was lying when she claimed to be a German tourist here without papers, and kept her in a detention centre while - eventually - treating her?

Here’s the latest:

CORNELIA RAU, the psychiatric patient whose wrongful detention by the Immigration Department stirred a national outcry, has been held in a Hamburg hospital for almost two months after she came to the notice of German police.

Her family is once again blaming officials
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No deficit of spin
Andrew Bolt
Spin slowed:

AFTER weeks of denial, Kevin Rudd has admitted the federal budget is heading into deficit, blaming the deteriorating global economic outlook.

Or spin sped. Because the media, congratulating itself for forcing Rudd to be honest, will now be more sanguine about the loss of the entire surplus that the Howard Government spent more than 11 years building. Let Mike Steketee demonstrate:

On past experience, the deficit will be larger and more prolonged than the Government is so far prepared to contemplate.... That does not matter, provided government debt does not rise to unsustainable levels...
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What Would Obama Do?
Andrew Bolt
Slowly building to a WWOD crisis:

Iran has more than 5,000 centrifuges to process uranium at its enrichment plant, its nuclear chief said Wednesday, in the country’s latest defiance of U.N. demands that it halt the controversial program.
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Watch your money, at least
Andrew Bolt
Shovelling the cash: a list of who got what at the Government’s film finance trough. As you scroll through the endless grants, imagine how beholden the recipients must feel to the system that feeds them, and how obliged to subscribed to the approved values. Note how often the name “Noyce” also appears. And we fed Marieke Hardy? - and no Rumble pictures either .. even though they made a 70 minute feature film that is set for big awards and a bigger audience. - ed.
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World surprises warmists again
Andrew Bolt
Planet won’t warm, ice won’t melt, winds won’t blow, reef won’t die ... and now the CSIRO learns this:

New research has found the Southern Ocean is more resilient to the effects of climate change than first thought, and still stores a large amount of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions.

Then there’s this ABC story - which somehow omits the telling statistic that counts most:

Levels of climate-warming greenhouses gases rose to record highs in 2007, leading to a 1 per cent increase in the overall warming effect, the World Meteorological Organisation said.

The missing stat that gives the game away? Why, the actual temperature anomaly for 2007 - which shows that greenhouse gases may rise, but the temperature still refuses to rise with them

UPDATE

Barack Obama’s green dream goes brown at the edges:

Forging a new energy future by creating vast amounts of wind, solar and, possibly, nuclear energy is one of Mr Obama’s highest priorities. But enacting that policy depends to a large degree on the ability of energy companies and utilities to finance the massive new investments that would be needed. With many of those companies cutting spending, a lot of those investments are being pared back or eliminated.