Free carbon allowances: Wolf in sheeps clothing « Green Hell Blog

While the Georgians receive $80/person/year in free allowances to offset higher energy costs, for example, the head of the Georgia Public Service Commission recently stated that a climate bill would raise energy costs to the average Georgia Power customers by an estimated $66/month by 2020. So while a family of four might get free allowances worth $320/year, their cost of electricity would increase by $792/year, a net loss of $472/year.

Would you pay that much money annually for a government program that accomplishes nothing?

YouTube - Ban to visit Arctic to push climate change [scam]

We have less than five months to seal a deal, Mr. Ban told journalists at his monthly news conference at UN Headquarters in New York. [At the 5:39 mark, he talks, pathetically, about "keeping up the momentum"]

Climate Feedback: How to heat a forest… or at least, a part of one

Bruce Kimball, a soil scientist at the US Department of Agriculture’s Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona, has been using infrared heaters to study the impacts of warming on agriculture for years. He’s recently started trying to work out how many heaters it would take to heat a stand of trees in a 100 metre-diameter plot. Early calculations suggest he would need 199 heaters arranged in a honeycomb pattern to achieve even heating. “I’m quite confident that I could come up with a configuration to get the energy distributed satisfactorily,” he says. “Whether we could get the dollars it would take to do such an experiment is another matter.”

Why not set an example for the little people and use allegedly clean, allegedly cheap wind or solar power?