WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Public 'losing faith' in climate change scientists find Cardiff researchers

People are becoming less trusting of scientists’ claims about climate change, research suggests.

A Dangerous Distraction | Friends of the Earth

Our report reveals that in the real world, offsets often fail to deliver the promised results and can often lead to increased emissions making climate change worse.

Solar wind surprise: “This discovery is like finding it got hotter when the sun went down,” « Watts Up With That?

UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth’s magnetosphere.

AccuWeather’s Joe Bastardi makes mincemeat of Greenpeace claim that California Wildfires are caused by Global Warming « Watts Up With That?

Fox news invited Greenpeace to come on, they initially accepted. Then late declined. Perhaps they heard they’d be up against Joe Bastardi. Watch the video as Joe takes apart the Greenpeace argument and more.

Cap-and-Trade: Recipe for Disaster, Economist Says - Environmental Capital - WSJ

If you liked what Enron, AIG, and the Federal Reserve did to the economy, you’ll love cap and trade.

That’s the thrust of a new paper from Louisiana State University economist Joseph Mason. Cap-and-trade programs, like the one passed by the House and simmering in the Senate, pose a couple of big problems, he says: They don’t work, and they can gum up the rest of the economy. Like many economists, Dr. Mason pines for the elegance of a carbon tax to tackle climate change.