Global Warming Protest cancelled due to Cold Summer Weather « An Honest Climate Debate

The nine-day People’s Power for the Climate protest vigil at Newcastle has been cancelled after just one day due to rain and cold. Organisers had previously advised participants to bring sun-cream and hats.

Tell The EPA To “(Not) Regulate This!”

Luckily, as part of our nation’s ability to rein in horrible ideas of government overreach, we have some say in the matter. The EPA is accepting comments from the public, and not just experts. Everyone can comment, and you should. Here are a couple reasons:

* On most environmental proposals, only hardcore environmentalists weigh in, so the odds are tilted against solid economic policy
* Bureaucrats count the number of the statements on each side
* You don’t need to be an expert — you have a right to comment on government plans that will harm our economy
* It’s a great way to start fighting off ridiculous, expensive “solutions” to global warming

Coyote Blog: Perversity of Government-Selected Winners

If you want a specific example, let's take plug-in hybrids. How can anyone be against these? I personally like the concept of cars being driven by electric traction motors (I like the performance profile of them) and would love a good plug-in hybrid. But what happens when we find out that many of these cars were bought in coal-burning areas where electricity is particularly cheap, and discover coal-fired electricity pollutes more than an internal combustion engine? Or when we use a cap and trade system to cut back on coal fired plants, and find that the huge number of plug-in hybrids are exacerbating brown-outs and electricity shortages? Or we find that the billions of dollars of capital diverted by the government to expanding plug-in hybrids could have easily yielded far more CO2 reduciton had it been applied in another area? That is why a carbon tax is the only way to go (if we are going to do anything) because it allows individuals to make capital expenditure decisions to reduce CO2 based on their vastly higher knowlege of the opportunities and the pricing signal of the tax.