Donna Gordon: Cap-and-trade legislation

While I support moving toward energy independence and consider myself an environmentalist, the cap-and-trade legislation recently passed by the House smacks of big government and overly intrusive policies. This bill will fuel an inflationary fire that is already smoldering due to excess government spending and create financial hardships for the majority of Americans.

Blair: We can [improve the weather by destroying our economy in an attempt to tweak one of hundreds of minor climate factors] | Metro.co.uk

We have the technology to defeat global warming and need only the political will to make it happen, Tony Blair has claimed.

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Real Climate Permits The Continued Presentation Of Misinformation

Here is what I propose to Real Climate in an attempt to move to a constructive dialog. I request that they answer these questions:

1. Using the upper ocean heat data from 2004 to the present, what is the Real Climate best estimate of the accumulation of heat in Joules?

2. Using that value of heat accumulation, what is the diagnosed global average radiative imbalance over the time period? How does this compare with Jim Hansen’s value of an imbalance of 0.85 W/m2 for the end of the 1990s?

These are well defined scientific questions. If Real Climate provides clear answers to them, we have moved forward to a more constructive scientific debate. I will keep you posted.