[Improve the weather by sneakily turning off TVs that other people may be enjoying!]

A day without television is a good advice to save the energy for the global warming issue. You can be that changing agent with this secret weapon. You can use the TV-B-Gone to switch off any television sets near you. You can use this device without being noticed by anyone else. As long as they do not know that you have turned the TV off, you will not get in the trouble. All you get is just the confused expressions of them and laughing inside your heart.

EDITORIAL: Empty rhetoric preferable this time

When it comes to the kinds of job-killing controls that would be embodied in any global-warming treaty, empty words and empty promises are probably the best we can hope for.

China Criticizes US Carbon Tariff "Protectionism," Considers Domestic Carbon Tax Policy -ChinaStakes.com

A research team led by Fan Gang put forward a suggestion that China should levy its own carbon tax immediately in line with the global carbon trading price if the US imposes one. According to WTO provisions, it is legal to collect a carbon tax, but WTO rules stipulate that double taxation is not allowed for the same product, so if China has already levied a carbon tax on the product in its domestic market, other countries are not allowed to impose yet more tax.

Ooops, Dutch Meteorological Institute caught in weather station siting failure – moved station and told nobody « Watts Up With That?

WUWT reader Mike Burns writes with this little bombshell on one of the world’s leading meteorological agencies. It seems they can’t get their thermometer siting correct which resulted in a bias to the record. Hmmm. Where have we heard this before?