Global Warming “Accelerating” | Climate Skeptic

So here is the real disconnect of the model: If you tell me that modelers underestimated the key input (CO2) in their models, and have so far overestimated the key output (Temperature), I would have said the conclusion to this article is that climate sensitivity must be lower than what was embedded in the models. But they are saying exactly the opposite. How is this possible?

Postscript: I hope readers understand this, but it is worth saying because clearly reporters do not understand this: There is no way that climate change from CO2 can be accelerating if global warming is not accelerating. There is no mechanism I have ever heard by which CO2 can change the climate without the intermediate step of raising temperatures. Co2–>temperature increase–>changes in the climate.

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More on the Tax vs. Rationing Front - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Today the editors at the Washington Post ran a plea for Congress to get off the kick of Euro-style CO2-rationing schemes known as “cap-and-trade.” In their piece, titled “Climate Change Solutions” (and subtitled “Sen. Boxer is open to everything — except what might work best”), the Post admitted that these Rube Goldberg schemes cooked up by Enron and now pushed by all manner of “rent-seekers” like General Electric “are complex and vulnerable to lobbying, and they do not guarantee success. The experience of the European Union is Exhibit A.”
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Conservatives: The T-word should only cross one’s lips when describing cap-and-trade’s impact and operation. Leave the calls for energy taxes to the Washington Post and other among their movement’s constituencies.

This offers the best hope for a debate on the relative merits. And as the entirety of their effort (and last October’s bailouts, and last week’s Porkulus, and this week’s coming bills . . . ) reminds us, when there’s “crisis” there’s just no time for debate . . . hence the demand for crisis. And where there's debate, they will lose.