C3: Are Coral Reefs At Risk? Peer-Reviewed Studies Indicate That Corals Successfully Adapt & Evolve To Thermal Changes

Read here. Alarmists claim that coral reefs will go extinct due to global warming but all evidence points to corals adapting to new thermal conditions and thriving.

Clunkers Bottom Line: ‘Don’t Buy American’ - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

First the Obama administration punished GM and Chrysler with billions of dollars in added mpg mandates. Now the clunkers program has discouraged customers to “Buy American.” How much more help from Washington can Detroit afford?

Morning Bell: Outsourcing Your Tax Dollars » The Foundry

In other words, the left in Congress has already spent 100.3% percent of the “carbon market finance” revenues raised. And not a single penny of it has yet been allocated to India, China, and the other developing countries that are demanding cash payments from us before they lift a finger to reduce carbon emissions.

Artifacts « the Air Vent

The point I’m making is that this effect is well known and when an advocate in blogland tells you it’s not about Mann’s hideously bad work there are many papers that create hockey sticks, remember they are all nearly the same thing in different clothes.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So Why Does Joe Romm Even Bother With Cap and Trade?

I wonder if there is some kind of psychological profile that causes people to see positive feedback-driven accelerating curves everywhere.

But here is my confusion — he is absolutely convinced that oil is going up by $140 a barrel or more. Let’s look at this in the context of Co2. The CBO estimates the clearing price for a ton of Co2 emissions under the current bill will be between $20-$30 a ton. Since a barrel of oil creates about a third of a ton of CO2 emissions, this implies the cap and trade bill might increase the price of oil by $7-$10 per barrel. But if Romm think oil is going up by natural market forces by $140+, why even bother? Why not just put a tax on coal and be done with it?