Is Global Temperature a Random Walk? « Watts Up With That?

But the monthly values will vary substantially around this basically flat trend, with individual monthly values saying little, if anything, about the long term direction of global temperature. In that sense, global temperature will be very much like a random walk.

It should have been defeated because it’s insane | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A terrific speech against Rudd’s scheme by Senator Nick Minchin, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, who truly does think it’s insane:

Whatever the climatic role of human induced emissions of CO2, CO2 is not by any stretch of the imagination a pollutant. CO2 is, as we know, a clear, odourless, colourless gas vital to life on earth… Indeed the Rudd government knows it too. Its own environment department’s website has a link to the official Australian National Pollutant Inventory, which lists 93 pollutants. Surprise, surprise, carbon dioxide is not listed among them....

It is also typical of this deceitful and spin-driven government to so cynically misrepresent the nature of carbon dioxide.

It’s the Sun, silly by David Archibald | Solar Cycle 25

The government’s intention to introduce an emissions trading system in Australia rests upon their belief that human carbon-dioxide emissions are a cause of dangerous global warming. That belief is incorrect. Though carbon dioxide is indeed a minor greenhouse gas, the major control on earth’s climate has always been, and remains, the Sun.

Dropping the green ball | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

All up, I’d suggest that Demetriou actually has a carbon footprint far, far bigger than that of almost every fan he’s asked to cycle to the football this weekend. If he really thought our planet faced doom from our gases, you might expect he’d suit his actions to his catastrophic beliefs.