Jennifer Marohasy » Wishful Thinking on Carbon Trading

Last week the Australian Treasury released modelling of the likely impact of an Emissions Trading Scheme. All the scenarios assume the rest of the world will sign-up. Read more here.

But why so flat from the 1930s thru the 1990s?

Fans of hockey sticks and other related climatic time series will no doubt see a familiar shape if they squint and look at this graph from the Albuquerque Office of the National Weather Service: