Censored: The fact that available data contradict a vital Warmist assumption

Because the temperature rise across the entire 20th century was trivial (just over one half of one degree), the best bet is that the rise (if any) over the 21st century will be trivial too. Warmists avoid that obvious truth by postulating various "amplifying" factors that will make the 21st century rise much greater than that seen in the 20th century. And chief nominee as an amplifying factor is cloud cover and water vapour generally. Sadly for the Warmists, evidence is accumulating that those very factors have in fact a minimizing rather than an amplifying effect. The entire edifice of Warmism is built on the sand of an unproven theory which looks like being in fact the reverse of the truth

Can Minnesota trees help control climate change?

A serious carbon credit program probably won’t be as simple as getting paid to leave trees standing. Instead, experts say, forest owners will be required to show how they are managing their forest differently to capture more carbon than would have otherwise occurred. They will be paid for the difference between doing nothing and making changes.

Experts in Cloquet last week said it’s clear that any kind of carbon credits for forest storage will require verifiable action by landowners to make sure the carbon really is there and that it stays there.

So far, the cost of verifying how much carbon each plot of land can store has been more than the value of the credits. But when higher prices come, abuses are expected as unscrupulous landowners seek to cash-in.