By a 42-30 vote, the Australian Senate defeated a package of bills which would have created a cap-and-trade scheme in Australia.  The politics around the vote were interesting and complicated, and not as based in the realities that the climate always changes and that people are an extremely minor factor as I would have like to have seen.  Nevertheless, it’s a good step from the part of the world that (along with New Zealand) is, just as they’re the first to celebrate New Year’s Eve, is showing that the “climate change” emperor has no clothes.

If you’re interested, other discussion of the politics around the vote can be found HERE and HERE.  (Just keep in mind that the writers for the newspaper are extremely sympathetic to the non-scientific left…)