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- 1833 – With the arrival of two British naval ships at theFalkland Islands, the United Kingdom re-asserted sovereignty there.
- 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first President of Liberia.
- 1946 – Canadian-American jockey George Woolf (pictured), who rodeSeabiscuit to a famous victory over War Admiral in 1938, was fatally injured when he fell from his horse during a race.
- 1961 – Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.
- 1973 – American businessman George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees professional baseball team forUS$8.7 million.
- 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell mobile phone, was released and went on to become one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption.
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Events
- 1431 – Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
- 1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
- 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
- 1653 – At the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
- 1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
- 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
- 1777 – American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 1782 – Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh is established
- 1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
- 1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
- 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
- 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
- 1870 – The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
- 1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
- 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
- 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
- 1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
- 1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in theUnited States.
- 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
- 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
- 1946 – Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
- 1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- 1949 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
- 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
- 1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
- 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- 1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
- 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
- 1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
- 1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- 1961 – The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, underwent a core explosion and meltdown, killing three workers.
- 1961 – Finland's worst civilian aviation accident takes place when Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
- 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- 1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
- 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
- 1990 – Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- 1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- 1994 – More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
- 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
- 1997 – China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
- 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
- 1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
- 2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
- 2004 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
[edit]Births
- 106 BC – Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
- 1196 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
- 1698 – Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
- 1710 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
- 1719 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
- 1722 – Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
- 1760 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
- 1778 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
- 1793 – Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist (d. 1880)
- 1802 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
- 1803 – Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright (d. 1857)
- 1806 – Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
- 1810 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
- 1819 – Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
- 1821 – Dragotin Dežman, Slovenian politician, archeologist and botanist (d. 1889)
- 1831 – Savitribai Phule, Indian social activist and educator (d. 1897)
- 1836 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
- 1840 – Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889)
- 1855 – Hubert Bland, British socialist (d. 1914)
- 1856 – R. C. Lehmann, English writer (d. 1929)
- 1861 – William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)
- 1862 – Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland (d. 1939)
- 1865 – Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
- 1870 – Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946)
- 1873 – Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
- 1874 – Francis Newton, American golfer (d. 1946)
- 1875 – Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Wilhelm Pieck, East Germany statesman (d. 1960)
- 1879 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
- 1880 – Francis Browne, Irish photographer (d. 1960)
- 1883 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
- 1884 – Raoul von Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
- 1885 – Harry Elkins Widener, American book collector and victim of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1912)
- 1886 – John Gould Fletcher, American poet and author (d. 1950)
- 1886 – Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
- 1887 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- 1887 – Helen Parkhurst, American educator, author, lecturer, the originator of the Dalton Plan and the founder of The Dalton School (d. 1973)
- 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
- 1894 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
- 1895 – Borys Lyatoshynsky, Ukrainian composer (d. 1968)
- 1897 – Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
- 1898 – Carolyn Haywood, American children's author (d. 1990)
- 1898 – Carlos Keller, Chilean fascist politician (d. 1974)
- 1900 – Donald J. Russell, North American railroad executive (d. 1985)
- 1901 – Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician (d. 1963)
- 1905 – Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
- 1907 – Ray Milland, British actor (d. 1986)
- 1909 – Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
- 1910 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1911 – John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
- 1912 – Federico Borrell Garcia, Spanish Republican soldier (d. 1936)
- 1912 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
- 1912 – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
- 1915 – Jack Levine, American painter (d. 2010)
- 1915 – Mady Rahl, German actress (d. 2009)
- 1916 – Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
- 1916 – Warren King, American cartoonist (d. 1978)
- 1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch author, actor and TV personality (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
- 1917 – Vernon Walters, American military officer and diplomat (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Herbie Nichols, jazz composer and pianist (d. 1963)
- 1920 – Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Siegfried Buback, Attorney-General of Germany (d. 1977)
- 1921 – Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
- 1922 – Bill Travers, British actor and director (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Hank Stram, American football coach (d. 2005)
- 1923 – Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Australian actor (d. 2009)
- 1924 – André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (d. 1997)
- 1924 – Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Jill Balcon, English actress
- 1926 – W. Michael Blumenthal, American businessman, civil servant, and 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1926 – Sir George Martin, British record producer
- 1929 – Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
- 1929 – Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
- 1930 – Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
- 1930 – Robert Loggia, American actor
- 1930 – Mara Corday, American showgirl, model and actress
- 1931 – Yashawant Dinkar Phadke, writer, historian and political activist from Maharashtra, India (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Dabney Coleman, American actor
- 1932 – Tongolele, American-born Mexican dancer
- 1934 – Carla Hills, American jurist, civil servant, and 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- 1935 – Raymond Garneau, Canadian politician and businessman
- 1935 – Camil Samson, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
- 1937 – Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
- 1939 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1939 – Ruben Reyes, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
- 1941 – Van Dyke Parks, American musician
- 1942 – John Marsden, Australian lawyer (d. 2006)
- 1942 – John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (d. 2009)
- 1944 – Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer
- 1945 – Stephen Stills, American musician (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Manassas)
- 1946 – John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin)
- 1946 – Cissy King, American entertainer
- 1949 – Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
- 1950 – Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
- 1950 – Victoria Principal, American actress
- 1951 – Gary Nairn, Australian politician
- 1952 – Esperanza Aguirre, Spanish politician and former President of Madrid
- 1952 – Gianfranco Fini, Italian politician
- 1952 – Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
- 1953 – Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and writer
- 1953 – Mohammed Waheed Hassan, President of the Maldives
- 1954 – Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
- 1954 – Ned Lamont, American businessman and political figure
- 1954 – Ross the Boss, American guitarist (The Dictators and Manowar)
- 1955 – Palmolive, British musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
- 1956 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor and director
- 1956 – Willy T. Ribbs, American race-car driver
- 1957 – Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
- 1958 – James J. Greco, American businessman
- 1958 – Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker
- 1963 – Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler
- 1963 – Alex Wheatle, British novelist
- 1963 – Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
- 1964 – Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
- 1969 – Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
- 1969 – Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian bobsledder and luger
- 1970 – Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
- 1970 – Matt Ross, American actor
- 1971 – Cory Cross, Canadian ice-hockey player
- 1972 – Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
- 1973 – Dan Harmon, American writer and producer
- 1974 – Robert-Jan Derksen, Dutch professional golfer
- 1974 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
- 1975 – Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
- 1975 – Jason Marsden, American actor
- 1975 – Danica McKellar, American actress
- 1976 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
- 1976 – Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
- 1977 – Lee Bowyer, British footballer
- 1977 – A.J. Burnett, American baseball player
- 1977 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress
- 1978 – Dimitra Kalentzou, Greek basketball player
- 1978 – Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model
- 1978 – Kimberley Locke, American singer
- 1978 – Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
- 1978 – Mike York, American ice hockey player
- 1979 – Chris Geddes, Canadian volleyball player
- 1979 – Dina Tersago, Miss Belgium 2001 and TV personality
- 1980 – Bryan Clay, American decathlete
- 1980 – Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
- 1980 – David Tyree, American football player
- 1981 – Naresh Iyer, Indian singer
- 1981 – Eli Manning, American football player
- 1982 – Lasse Nilsson, Swedish footballer
- 1983 – Antti Arst, Estonian footballer
- 1984 – Billy Mehmet, Irish footballer
- 1984 – Arif Suyono, Indonesian footballer
- 1985 – John David Booty, American football player
- 1985 – Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1985 – Evan Moore, American football player
- 1986 – Dana Hussain, Iraqi sprinter
- 1986 – Jessica O'Rourke, American footballer
- 1986 – Jacob Timpano, Australian footballer
- 1987 – Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1987 – Anchal Joseph Indian/American fashion model
- 1988 – Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer
- 1988 – Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican artist and performer
- 1988 – Matt Frattin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – J. R. Hildebrand American race car driver
- 1988 – Ikechi Anya, Scottish-born Nigerian footballer
- 1989 – Alex D. Linz, American actor
- 1989 – Anya Rozova, Russian/American fashion model
- 1989 – Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast
- 1989 – Ayaka Umeda, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 1991 – Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer
- 1992 – Sandra Zaniewska, Polish tennis player
[edit]Deaths
- 235 – Pope St. Anterus
- 323 – Jin Yuandi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 276)
- 492 – Pope Felix III
- 1098 – Walkelin, Norman bishop of Winchester
- 1322 – King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
- 1437 – Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
- 1543 – Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
- 1571 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
- 1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, British astronomer (b. 1618)
- 1656 – Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
- 1670 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, British soldier (b. 1608)
- 1690 – Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
- 1701 – Prince Louis I of Monaco (b. 1642)
- 1743 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
- 1779 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
- 1785 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
- 1795 – Josiah Wedgwood, British potter (b. 1730)
- 1813 – Bennelong, Aborigine interlocutor (b. c.1764)
- 1826 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
- 1871 – Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian Saint (b. 1805)
- 1875 – Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
- 1882 – William Harrison Ainsworth, British novelist (b. 1805)
- 1895 – James Merritt Ives, American lithographer (b. 1824)
- 1903 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
- 1911 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
- 1915 – James Elroy Flecker, British poet (b. 1884)
- 1916 – Grenville M. Dodge, American Major General (b. 1831)
- 1922 – Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, German impostor who became famous as The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) in 1906 (b. 1849)
- 1923 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
- 1927 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
- 1931 – Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
- 1933 – Wilhelm Cuno, German staesman (b. 1876)
- 1933 – Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
- 1943 – Sir Walter James, Australian politician (b. 1863)
- 1943 – André Fauquet-Lemaître, French polo player (b. 1862)
- 1944 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
- 1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
- 1945 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
- 1946 – William Joyce, American propagandist (b. 1906)
- 1950 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
- 1956 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
- 1956 – Dimitrios Vergos, Greek champion in wrestling, weightlifting and shot put (b. 1886)
- 1956 – Joseph Wirth, German statesman (b. 1876)
- 1959 – Edwin Muir, Orcadian poet, novelist and translator (b. 1887)
- 1962 – Hermann Lux, German footballer (b. 1893)
- 1967 – Mary Garden, British singer (b. 1874)
- 1967 – Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
- 1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1909)
- 1969 – Tzavalas Karousos, Greek actor (b. 1904)
- 1970 – Gladys Aylward, British missionary (b. 1902)
- 1972 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian Writer(b.1925)
- 1974 – Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
- 1975 – James McCormack first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (b. 1910)
- 1979 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
- 1980 – Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
- 1980 – Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
- 1980 – George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
- 1981 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
- 1988 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
- 1988 – Joie Chitwood, American racing driver and stuntman (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1992 – Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
- 1993 – Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
- 2002 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
- 2002 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
- 2005 – JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
- 2005 – Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
- 2006 – Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
- 2007 – Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Earl Reibel, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
- 2007 – William Verity Jr., American industrialist and 28th Secretary of Commerce (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Sir Cecil Walker, Northern Irish politician (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
- 2008 – Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
- 2008 – Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
- 2010 – Mary Daly, American theologian and feminist scholar (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (b. 1925)
- 2011 – Fadil Hadžić, Croatian film director (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Willi Entenmann, German footballer and footballcoach (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer and publisher (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Gatewood Galbraith, American politician (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor and politician (b. 1930)
[edit]Holidays and observances
- Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka)
- The tenth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
- First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore
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Now is the season to silly-old-bugger about
Piers Akerman – Thursday, January 03, 2013 (5:39pm)
SHARK attacks and bushfires, fireworks on the Harbour, the so-called silly season has us in its grip and along with the cicadas, out come the ridiculous old, and not-so-old, buggers to make that point.
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Which leaves just us and some other warmist patsies
Andrew BoltJANUARY032013(3:55am)
Remember Climate Change Minister Greg Combet’s mendacious and deceitful spin last year about the rest of the world matching Australia’s insane sacrifices to “stop” a global warming that actually paused 16 years ago?:
AUSTRALIA plans to join Europe in a renewed and binding pledge to reduce emissions under the Kyoto treaty, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said on Friday before leaving later this month for negotiations in Doha, Qatar…
“While Australia is doing our fair share, we expect the same from others,” he said. “The Kyoto Protocol is not enough on its own. It will cover less than 15 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions and only from developed countries."…Besides agreeing to an extended commitment to the 1997 Kyoto treaty, the EU and Australia are holding out the possibility of making greater pledges to cut emissions to encourage similar global action…Combet defended Australia’s move to begin pricing carbon in July and to start a cap-and-trade system in 2015. About 3 billion people may live in a place using cap and trade either nationwide or in one of its jurisdiction by 2020, he said.“Paying for pollution is no longer the exception,” Combet said. “It’s a global reality.”
Let’s check how we’ll we’ve succeeded in encouraging other countries to join in renewing their Kyoto commitment to cut emissions:
The U.N. climate summit here in Cancun, Mexico, has been consumed this past week over Japan’s announcement at one of the opening plenary sessions that they would not renew their emission reduction pledges under the Kyoto Protocol once the first round of required carbon cuts expire in 2012.
Canada would not renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol once the pact’s first commitment period expires at the end of next year, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent said Monday.
New Zealand will not sign up for fresh commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change Minister Tim Groser announced yesterday…
Greenpeace is condemning the move as embarrassing, just as Australia is renewing its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol.
Russia will not renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol,..
Russia decided to discontinue its participation in the protocol because the world’s major producers of greenhouse gases – the United States, China and India – are still refusing to commit themselves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I don’t think this policy of wowing the world with our sacrifices is working. Do you?
And seeing how our efforts will make no difference to the climate, shouldn’t the government be more concerned to save us money and jobs?
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BIG OIL PAYS FAT AL
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 03, 2013 (6:32pm)
Enjoy your $100 million of oil money, Al Gore!
(Via Bruce G.)
UPDATE. “Al’s a whore, basically. Gore, I mean. Not Jazeera.”
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KIWIS KRUSHED
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 03, 2013 (2:38pm)
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TWENTY-MINUTE MACKLIN
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 03, 2013 (1:44pm)
Today’s editorial:
Families Minister Jenny Macklin’s first mistake was her failure to correct the question’s flawed premise.Asked at a press conference if she could live on the dole, the minister eventually said that she could.Instead, Ms Macklin should have pointed out that the dole is not intended to provide a living wage. It’s a bridging allowance in an economy with just over 5 per cent unemployment …Still, let’s take the Families Minister at her word. Perhaps she really can live on the dole.But for how long?Jenny Macklin currently gets by on a $328,698 annual cabinet minister’s salary plus expenses that for the first six months of 2012 ran to $290,172. That works out to an average daily expense to taxpayers of $2490.By contrast, the dole provides $35 per day. At her current rate, that would keep Families Minister Jenny Macklin going for just 20 minutes.
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KEVNI’S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 03, 2013 (12:43pm)
Back in 2007:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has signed the instrument of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.Mr Rudd says it is the first official act of the new Government and demonstrates the commitment to tackling climate change.
Rudd raved:
The Kyoto Protocol is considered to be the most far-reaching agreement on environment and sustainable development ever adopted.
Leftoids swooned:
The earth thanks Kevin Rudd.
Millionaire actress Cate Blanchett applauded Rudd’s “great achievement”:
He ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. These measures suggest that his new government is prepared to think big and back it up with effective action.
Rudd vowed to unite the world:
Mr Rudd - former diplomat and China expert - told the Herald yesterday he intended to use Australia’s new position as a member of the Kyoto club to “bridge the gap” between developed and developing countries on future emissions controls.
But now:
The Kyoto protocol is a zombie treaty.It’s a corpse that keeps moving, but it’s dead …Because Kyoto made no demands on the developing world, where emissions are rising the fastest, global emissions increased throughout the period covered by the treaty.
They sure did:
Kyoto Protocol aimed for 5% cut in carbon emissions — instead, we got a 58% increase.
(Via the GWPF)
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OPPOSED TO WORK AND DEBT
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 03, 2013 (1:23am)
David Thompson harvests leftist wisdom. As a commenter says: “Once, these sorts of statements were protected by doctor/patient confidentiality.”
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I hope her school has a strict uniform policy .. no make up or enhancements .. - ed
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All the organs of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who
was in charge.
The brain said: "I should be in charge, because I run all the body's
systems, so without me nothing would happen."
"I should be in charge," said the heart, "because I pump the blood and
circulate oxygen all over the body, so without me you'd all waste
away."
"I should be in charge," said the stomach, "because I process food and
give all of you energy."
"I should be in charge," said the rectum, "because I'm responsible for
waste removal."
All the other body parts laughed at the rectum and insulted him, so in
a huff, he shut down tight. Within a few days, the brain had a
terrible headache, the stomach was bloated, and the blood was toxic.
Eventually the other organs gave in. They all agreed that the rectum
should be the boss.
The moral of the story?
You don't have to be smart or important to be in charge... just an
asshole.
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