Climate issues pressed despite cooling

I think it is a matter of control by these fellows rather than worry about global warming. They think they know better than anyone else - which is tragic because they are so very wrong in their thinking, and we may pay the price for their stupidity. - Don Milligan,Tucson

Facts are cooling off climate alarmism | Kyle Wingfield

The top priority from the 2008 exercise was increasing poor children’s intake of vitamin A and zinc. Investing in R&D for low-carbon technology ranked 14th out of 30 options — about where it deserves to be.

If only the world leaders in Pittsburgh this week would take such a tack. But that would mean they had forgone granting new regulatory power to themselves.

In other words, don’t hold your exhalation of CO2.

An epidemic of OCD: Obsessive Carbon Dogma | spiked

For some celebrity hypochondriacs, OCD has become a fashion statement, for others it is just a chain around their neck. But there is one major obsessive compulsion that has become a central feature of all our lives to the extent that there is real kudos in becoming its victim. Far from reducing anxiety, the latest OCD – Obsessive Carbon Dogma – actually raises anxiety in order to give itself some therapeutic rationale. Fear of rising tides, of population growth, of China and India, of motor cars, of energy use, and of most other aspects of contemporary society, has led us to develop an infatuation with carbon and the mindless repetitive trivia of everyday life. Such is the extent of this compulsion that it has even become government policy in many developed countries.

Campus Times - Is Cap and Trade the best way to go? Clearly, no

A far simpler solution than even the Republicans’ plan would be to enact a “carbon tax” in which polluters pay an amount per ton of carbon emitted. It is efficient, much easier to regulate, and the bill will not be 932 pages long. The total revenue of just the electrical industry was $400 billion in 2007 and the carbon output of the country was about 7 billion metric tons. If each metric ton was taxed at $10 per metric ton, then the government could receive up to $70 billion a year. That means that we could afford to pay off some of our national debt.