Nothing to Show: AGWers’ Big Stumbling Block « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Note that Romm’s blog has been echoed by Heliophage, on Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth, and in Nature’s Climate Feedback. An unwise move, if you ask me: one wonders what people would make if they knew that those claiming to work towards saving Planet Earth, are actively hoping disasters of all sorts befall upon us.

Talk about striving for unpopularity!!!

The desperation is evident in the fact that a person allegedly as well-informed on climate stuff as Romm, comes up with wholly inappropriate examples. Katrina was a big storm but not more superstorm than other hurricanes (Romm even acknowledges this point), and the destruction of New Orleans was evidently a matter of bad engineering and incompetent relief management. Didn’t he have anything better to put forward?

Likewise for the European heatwave of 2003. And even more importantly: neither Katrina, nor the European heatwave, can be linked to Climate Change and/or Global Warming. And so if, say, another heatwave will materialize, it will tell us absolutely nothing about Climate Change and Global Warming.

Actually, looking at the list of 9 items posted by Romm, the only ones that may provide ammunitions to the AGW cause may be the ice-free Arctic, and “accelerated mass loss in Greenland“...

A flying start | National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand

Gordon Brown gets a D for his new air departure tax. It will add $240 to an air ticket from the United Kingdom to New Zealand.

The claimed rationale for the tax is to help offset carbon emissions. But this is just an excuse for protectionism and tax gathering.

The United Kingdom has been in an emissions trading scheme since 2002. The UK ETS ran from 2002 to 2006, and since then they have been in the EU ETS. The whole idea of an ETS is to make carbon emitters pay for the cost of offsetting their emissions, and to reduce them over time.

The tax is about making it expensive for British residents to travel and holiday overseas, hence increasing domestic tourism. A nasty form of protectionism.