The Associated Press: ND regulators oppose 'cap and trade' carbon rules
"The problem with cap-and-trade is, it's really not ... an environmental policy. It's an appropriations policy. It's a way to raise money for government," Clark said. "And the way that it's proposed to be implemented raises it disproportionally from states like North Dakota."Writer/Reality denier Chris Mooney: The Deniers’ Last Stand
Clark said increased federal subsidies for research into cutting carbon dioxide emissions would be preferable to a cap-and-trade plan.
A coalition of farm groups, including the North Dakota Farm Bureau, the Stockmen's Association and the Grain Growers Association, sent a letter to North Dakota's congressional delegation and Gov. John Hoeven this week, questioning the effect of global warming legislation on the costs of fuel, fertilizer and electricity.
Once a law passes, meanwhile, there will be no reason any longer even to discuss whether global warming is real and human caused. The decision will have been made at the level of policy. Many folks will take their denial to the grave, of course. But with Congress having decided the matter, and a new set of greenhouse gas regulations instituted, denial will cease to serve any political purpose–and this, of course, was long its lifeblood, its raison d’etre.Cold May days on a sub-tropical barrier island aren't right | Jacksonville.com
Deprived of that animating energy, I suspect climate change denial will then finally take its place in the annals of politically irrelevant crankery, alongside ozone depletion denial, smoking-disease denial, asbestos-mesothelioma denial, and so on.
Perhaps someone ought to build a museum–a monument to human tenacity in the face of the truth–and memorialize them all there.
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. - Shouldn't somebody be playing football?
For the second day in a row Tuesday, the thermometer didn't make it past 60 degrees on this - as it is often described - subtropical barrier island. That temperature is Fahrenheit by the way. I'm thinking it's more of a sub-arctic barrier island.
Here we are listening to people on TV crying about climate change, global warming and sustainability and I'm freezing. I'm for getting to a daytime high around 72 degrees and sustaining that for awhile.
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2001 headline :http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/the-ozone-hole-is-bigger-than-ever/ If you haven't heard anything about the ozone hole over Antarctica lately it isn't because it has gone away. Quite the contrary. Despite the fact that the chlorofluorocarbons, CFC's, that were supposed to be causing it have been banned for many years, the depletion of the ozone layer has continued, and the Antarctic ozone hole is bigger than ever. 2008 Headline: South Pole ozone hole could be largest everThis year's ozone hole surrounding the Southern Hemisphere's pole is shaping up to be one of the largest ever, having already surpassed the size of last year's, according to the World Meteorological Organization."Chemists poke holes in ozone theory: Reaction data of crucial chloride compounds called into question."
"As the world marks 20 years since the introduction of the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer, Nature has learned of experimental data that threaten to shatter established theories of ozone chemistry.http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/09/ozone-hole-theory-faces-lab-problems.htmlBenny Peiser has informed us about lab experiments that seem to contradict the dominant theory about ozone depletion:
Nature about Markus Rex's analysis of NASA's experiments
Because subscription is required, here is the extracted text, a technical abstract with some basic results, Noel Sheppard's reaction, and Ronald Bailey's news story.
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