Will carbon market woes tilt U.S. pols towards carbon taxes, CAA regulation? | OpenMarket.org

So, liberty lovers be warned: We could end up with cap-and-trade, carbon taxes, and CAA controls on CO2. As Al Gore said at his March 2007 Senate Environment and Public Works hearing, “We need it all.”

Blue Like You » Blog Archive » Getting sucked back into the Kyoto Kult

...A little dose of healthy skepticism could be useful here. Let’s not allow ourselves to get sucked into the Kyoto Religion.

Good science demands facts.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Alarming climate model output from MIT

Let's dissect this. Climate modeling is not "research" and it is not "experiments". It is simply output from a computer program written by humans who have very limited knowledge of the dynamics of the Earth's climate system. The climate models program in strong positive feedbacks and, of course, the models output strong temperature increases. In the real world the data show just the opposite, namely strong negative feedbacks.

Alaska: Skyway Robbery: $100 million into the wind

Apparently it doesn't matter that a random selection of five projects revealed that four of them raised serious questions about the agency's diligence in accurately evaluating their economic viability.

Apparently it doesn't matter that lawmakers, AEA and the governor have no idea if any these projects make economic sense or will actually work because they haven't been properly vetted.

Apparently it doesn't matter that this will be $100 million spread around the state to win political friends and appease voters but offering no promise of sustainability. Just the promise of another opportunity to learn yet again, what happens when the state's pocket book is faster than its brain.

What apparently matters is smash mouth politics, where public policy makers agree to throw $100 million of taxpayer money at energy projects that they know haven't been adequately studied.