Where's the use of the climate scam to sell this?: Top lawmaker wants mileage-based tax on vehicles

The tax would entail equipping vehicles with GPS technology to determine how many miles a car has been driven and whether on interstate highways or secondary roads. The devices would also calculate the amount of tax owed.

Energy Outlook

Like Mr. Friedman, I believe we should put a price on emissions of greenhouse gases--if not this year then fairly soon--in order to promote efficiency and the adoption of cleaner technologies over time. However, we shouldn't imagine this will be easy or cheap, let alone something that will create mountains of new wealth out of, literally, thin air. Haven't we all just been through something like that, to our regret? We can't suddenly start collecting fees on behalf of an environmental service--storing our waste carbon in the atmosphere--that has been free since the dawn of time and expect that this won't impose a burden on someone.

Hurricane Forecasts Post a Sorry Record - WSJ.com

Perhaps one to two additional storms are being named each year than would have been a few decades ago, thanks to improvements in technology and climate science, according to Christopher Landsea of the hurricane center. To some climatologists, the naming standards have gotten too lax. NOAA named 13 storms in 2007, prompting a press release from the Weather Research Center in Houston saying its forecast of seven named storms was dead-on -- after subtracting the six storms it deemed unworthy of naming, because they only briefly featured the levels of wind and pressure characteristic of tropical storms.

Several forecasters question NOAA's dual role as forecaster, through its Climate Prediction Center, and as forecast arbiter, via the National Hurricane Center. The concern is that those scientists deciding whether to name storms late in the season might feel pressure to base their decision in part on how it would reflect on their colleagues' predicted counts. "In some sense, they hold the cards," James Elsner, a professor of geography at Florida State University, says of NOAA scientists.

A scary question and a crazy idea - BusinessGreen Blog

The key question though, is not what should be done, but how should it be done? How do environmentalists and green businesses drive climate change up the agenda of the main political parties and make some of these policies a reality?

The answer, according to [Colin Challen, MP], is by taking them over.

Prince of Wales extends Thermageddon deadline • The Register

The heir to the British throne, HRH Prince Charles has told the Italian Parliament there are 99 months left to save the world from environmental disasters - including runaway global warming. That would put our last date for avoiding Thermageddon at July 2017. But it's a considerable improvement on Charles' predictions last year.

Last May, HRH predicted humanity had just 18 months to save the world from Thermageddon and other eco-calamities - putting the deadline at November this year. It looks like we've had a eight year reprieve - giving us two more World Cups. Or have we?
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It was in Brazil last month that Charles announced we had "100 months to save the world" and he's kept a close eye on his own disaster countdown. Note the precision: "We now only have ninety-nine months – actually very nearly ninety-eight [our emphasis] - before we reach the point of no return," he said. [Transcript here].