Swift Solutions: An Immodest Proposal for Fighting Global Warming - Environmental Capital - WSJ

A couple of observations are in order. Calling the planned cap-and-trade program a tax seems to underscore the point made by Rep. John Larson, who just introduced a bill to establish a straight carbon tax. The main argument against carbon taxes in Washington is that “tax” is a dirty word, even though people as different as Exxon boss Rex Tillerson and Al Gore favor that approach.

But since opponents of cap-and-trade call that a tax anyway (since it will raise energy prices) maybe the idea of a carbon tax is losing some of its negative semantic baggage.

More problems documenting the allegedly overheating Arctic

The sort of problems Martin's likely to encounter on the ice with the Z5, range from the batteries losing power to the camera buttons sticking. Extreme cold prevents the chemical reaction required for batteries to work and release power, which can only be remedied by keeping the battery warm and therefore using a rotation system with one battery on the camera and another keeping warm inside your jacket. The internal workings of the camera will operate for a few hours down to about -30˚C before the tape mechanism starts to struggle and the mechanisms controlling the focus and zoom rings start to stiffen and eventually will cease to work at all, the lens regularly freezes over, spindrift gets everywhere and the lcd screen will freeze at about -20˚C making it unusable.

As if that isn't enough to contend with, the real difficulty lies in actually using the camera in the cold. It's a real juggling act between making sure you can operate all the rings and buttons on the camera to achieve the best possible shot, and avoiding getting frostbite as you've had to remove your outer gloves in order to do this!

And more from alarmists in the Arctic

If I am totally honest it is pretty horrid out here and not very nice but you just have to keep on going.