David Frum - Short Publications - Why Rush Is Allegedly Wrong

We need an environmental message. You don't have to accept Al Gore's predictions of imminent gloom to accept that it cannot be healthy to pump gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We are rightly mistrustful of liberal environmentalist disrespect for property rights. But property owners also care about property values, about conservation, and as a party of property owners we should be taking those values more seriously.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Science Allows Ideology-Free Policy

Ideology, I suppose, is something that those other guys have. These sentiments, and those reported yesterday by Ryan, are incoherent.

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Energy independence? What about climate?

The Prince Charles Hat Trick - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

If global warming is real and if it is the iminent threat that Prince Charles has declared, should't we do everything possible to reduce our carbon footprint? In that case, why in the world should anyone outside of South America buy wine from Chile?

Prince Charles is a Quack - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Odd that the Greens look at Prince Charles as some sort of visionary on global warming, yet on other aspects of his life he is widely ridiculed. Like this report on the BBC about his "detox" products...

Make sensible climate change | The Australian

The Government also should seriously consider including soil carbon offsets on a voluntary basis, as it has already done with forestry.

The Coalition parties would have us believe that soil carbon is an alternative to an emissions trading scheme. In fact the reverse is true; you need an emissions trading scheme to generate a market for soil carbon offsets.

Twitter / LMarle

-38 with windchill in perpetual Winter-peg..... where's global warming when you need it, eh Al?

Oh, that Andy: Now Revkin suggests that trace amounts of CO2 may drive maples from New York

Here’s a quick break from the tussle over what’s driving climate change and what to do about it.
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...the sap is flowing in the sugar maples. In a warming world, that marvelous tree may disappear from the woods here and spread farther north.

Sacrificing the Poor for a Green Agenda - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

This could be one of the more outrageous statements on climate change I've read, via Milo Yiannopoulos...

What do cars and cows have in common? No, not horns - Times Online

Proposals to tax the flatulence of cows and other livestock have been denounced by farming groups in the Irish Republic and Denmark.

A cow tax of €13 per animal has been mooted in Ireland, while Denmark is discussing a levy as high as €80 per cow to offset the potential penalties each country faces from European Union legislation aimed at combating global warming.
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The cow tax proposals would raise funds to buy allowances from other member states or to invest in technology that might reduce emissions. Denmark is believed to be further advanced with housing for pigs that captures and stores methane emitted from the animals. The gas can be used as a fuel for power generation.

Video: "Top" scientist: don't trust politicians on climate change - Times Online

Mr Ashton also told scientists that if they wanted to be listened to in the current political climate, they needed to show that tackling climate change was an economic opportunity.

Reuters AlertNet - Giant Climate Bill for Denmark?

The poorest have not contributed to global warming and they should therefore not have to pay. Yet they should have the right to development even if it leads to CO2-emission. The poorest in the developing countries should on that basis not be included in this "key of justice". The writers of GDR have set the threshold determining who is poor at approximately 20 USD a day.

Camden Council: Green Parking Charges on Camden’s Estates

Residents on Camden’s housing estates could be charged for their parking permits based on how much CO2 their vehicle emits.
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[James King] “The effects of climate change are very real and so this approach to parking permits can help to drive behaviour change and encourage motorists to take account of environmental issues such as climate change and air quality”.

Because it's allegedly important how much CO2 is emitted into the air when making a drink deliberately laced with CO2: Diet Coke better for the environment than regular

Coca-Cola, working with the Carbon Trust, found that a 330ml can of Coca-Cola in Britain produced 170 grams of carbon but a can of Diet Coke or Coke Zero, also 330ml, has a footprint of 150 grams.

How to Distribute $646 Billion in Carbon Market Revenues? [Maybe just divide it equally between Gore, Hansen, Mann, and Pachauri?]

Under a cap-and-trade system, polluters buy permits, usually from government authorities, to compensate for their emissions. Such a system would raise hundreds of billions of dollars in an economy the size of the United States.

From the Heartland Climate Conference in NYC: Some of this video was showing in the elevator

America's Power - Economic Benefits from Advanced Coal Electric Generation

A coalition of key labor and energy industry groups agree that the next generation of advanced clean coal technologies – those that capture and safely store carbon dioxide (CO2) - will create millions of high-skilled, high-wage jobs for American workers.

The poor and the pocketbook - victims of global-warming alarmism (OneNewsNow.com)

NEW YORK CITY - Environmental policies enacted in response to global-warming alarmism are having negative -- perhaps unintended -- consequences on the poor. That was one message among many delivered Monday at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change.

Global warming linked to gravity

Vaughan said big ice sheets on Antarctica and on Greenland have a gravitational pull that lifts the seas around them -- water levels around Antarctica, for instance, are higher than if the frozen continent were an open ocean.

As ice thaws, Antarctica would get smaller and its gravitational tug would diminish.

The science was allegedly settled in '07; it's cooled since then; now we're raising sea level predictions by hundreds of percent?

Sea levels this century may rise several times higher than predictions made in 2007 that form the scientific foundation for policymakers today, climate experts warned Tuesday.

Can we import Vaclav Klaus? :: Janet Daley

...And he bravely reiterated [at Columbia yesterday] his global warming scepticism to boot: warming "alarmism" was, he said, a major problem in the current economic circumstances. Can we import him?

Hundreds arrested in Greenpeace demo

Activists arrested in Brussels after blocking exits from the Council of Ministers
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“We wanted not to let the finance ministers go before they came up with a real proposal,” said Thomas Henningsen, a Greenpeace campaigner. “These guys [EU finance ministers] are not willing to put a single cent on the table.” He described their current proposal as “unacceptable, disrespectful for all the people living on the planet.

Heartland Update: Climate Change Modeling and the Sun’s Effect on Global Temperature » The Foundry

Sununu says the White House increased the budget for climate funding research from a few hundred million to $1.5 billion per year – and now stands at $10 billion per year. But the return on the investment has been small. Clarifying the science and separating fact from myth still remains quite difficult.