Global warming [hoax] pushes up building insurance costs | Money | The Guardian

Flash floods and giant hailstones help increase claims by 15% and insurance premiums by 10%

Wilson Tuckey to speak at Climate Sceptics Protest - Aug 13th

He may be Joe Hockey's cranky old uncle, but Wilson Tuckey makes a lot of sense and stands up for his constituents.

Wilson opposes the ETS on both sides of the issue, i.e. need and effectiveness, but will say also that if a response is needed, other options are available that provide energy efficiency and security.

ULI Moving Cooler Report: Greenhouse Gases, Exaggerations and Misdirections | Newgeography.com

Overall, the treatment of costs and benefits will leave readers gasping:

* Travel times don’t get counted – so shifting from a 15 minute car trip to an hour on transit or walking has no penalty.
* Transit subsidies don’t get counted – so doubling subsidies to increase ridership has only benefits.
* Every possible pricing strategy is invoked – congestion pricing, cordon pricing, on-street parking fees, extreme fuel prices – in order to get people out of cars, and then the loss of their cars is counted as a benefit.

Waxman-Markey: Inconsequential for Sea-Level Rise, Too — MasterResource

Using a middle-of-the-road future emissions scenario as a baseline, the emissions reductions that would be mandated in the U.S. under the provisions of the Waxman-Markey bill would result in reducing the sea level rise by mid-century by less than 0.1 inches, and the reduction would still be less than 0.5 inches by century’s end.