It's now or never.

On top of dire warnings from the US Department of Energy that global greenhouse gas emissions jumped by an alarming 6% in the previous year Joe Romm at Climate Progress has reported on a study that shows the current rate of global warming to be unprecedented in the last twenty thousand years.  Now Climate Progress summarizes a  chilling report from the International Energy Agency, not exactly a bunch of climate radicals. The IEA warns that the window of opportunity to halt global warming at or around 2ºC is rapidly closing and the world is headed for irreversible climate change in five years. "If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change." 

Meanwhile on Planet Canberra, which apparently is not subject to the laws of physics, the Nationals have taken aim at Labor and Independent MP Tony Windsor as the party vowed to overturn the carbon tax. Nationals leader Warren Truss declared the vote "Labor's betrayal of the Australian people".

"The Australian people willing, the Coalition will not allow the carbon tax to dog future generations," he said. "We have given ironclad notice to all Australians that should the Coalition form the next government we will repeal this destructive tax."

A fired-up Barnaby Joyce described the Senate vote as an "adjournment", not a defeat. "Australians cannot afford it," he said, vowing to use "every sinew of our body" to overturn the tax. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the federal government has confirmed in law its "betrayal" of the Australian people after its controversial carbon tax passed through parliament. The stupidity of these people borders on criminal.
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Update
Giles Parkinson at Climate Spectator has picked up on the IEA report also.

The climate stupidity of Joyce, Boswell and other National Party fools is criminal!.