Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel - Cap-and-trade mirage: Democrats' climate bill failure - washingtonpost.com

Carbon offsets create the illusion of "additional" greenhouse-gas reductions, but we are just getting business as usual. Untrackable shifting of economic activity and perverse incentives such as these are inherent problems for carbon offsets and cannot be solved by certification or verification processes. Since the most flawed offsets will be the cheapest, they will also be the most popular.

The House and Senate climate bills are not a first step in the right direction. They would give away valuable rights in cap-and-trade permits and create a trillion-dollar carbon-offsets market that will not lead to needed reductions. Together, the illusion of greenhouse-gas reductions and the creation of powerful lobbies seeking to protect newly created profits in permits and offsets would lock in climate degradation for a decade or more. The near-term opportunity to create an effective international framework would also be lost.

Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel are lawyers with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Rank Gavin Noise « Climate Audit

William Connolley is still, shall we say, manfully pretending not to understand how sediments affected by bridge-building, ditches and agriculturally activity cannot be excellent temperature "proxies" if they correlate with NH temperature. Amazingly, some of his readers, like PNAS editors and referees, take this sort of stuff seriously.

Just for fun, I've constructed an example that, IMO, contains the relevant features of the Tiljander example, combining a well known series with "rank Gavin noise", defined here as two times log(1000) minus the log of the rank of Gavin among US names (somewhat modifying realclimate's Gavin index, originally proposed by Lucia.) As you see, it has a familiar hockey stick shape.

Placing My Lance - Rebane's Ruminations

...it is the battle to make our electorate aware of the real dangers of managed climate change hysteria to which I commit my lance.

Exposing the Green World Order

The environmental movement, bent on regulating America under its green thumb, has such a vast array of lobbying groups, proposed measures, and specialized terminology, that it is difficult for busy Americans who are wary of this movement to stay current with the debate. To the rescue comes Steve Milloy’s Green Hell. At 294 pages, it is not encyclopedic, but just the right length to bring readers up to date on the methodologies, motives, and fallacies of this movement, and how to combat it.