On a cost basis, carbon-capture projects are madness - The Globe and Mail

Let's be generous and assume the two projects costing $1.6-billion do in fact bury 2.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, the most-prevalent gas contributing to global warming. Such a reduction would mean a per-tonne carbon-reduction cost of about $761 – staggeringly, wildly, mind-blowingly higher than any other conceivable measure designed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Want a contrast? Alberta has a piddling carbon tax on emissions over a certain level that companies can avoid by paying $15 a tonne into an technology fund.

Study: model in good agreement with satellite temperature data – suggest cooling « Watts Up With That?

Global satellite data is analyzed for temperature trends for the period January 1979 through June 2009. Beginning and ending segments show a cooling trend, while the middle segment evinces a warming trend. The past 12 to 13 years show cooling using both satellite data sets, with lower confidence limits that do not exclude a negative trend until 16 to 22 years.

[More public money blown on Gore's hoax]

The University of South Carolina is getting nearly $5 million in federal funds to study possible ways to curb climate change.

The school said Tuesday it would use a U.S. Energy Department grant to study if carbon dioxide can be stored underground in places like aquifers and old oil reserves to keep the greenhouse gas from affecting global warming.

The Underwater Cabinet Meeting and 5 Other Global Warming [Fraud] Stunts | Sustainability | Fast Company

...what other global warming PR stunts have made an impact? Below, we look at some of our favorites.