OLD MAN WINTER: HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS

With upwards of 8" of snow reported across central Wales and a couple of days ago Perthshire seeing a cripping 8-18" of snow with Auchterader, particularly hard hit and the closure of the, often "winter weather prone" A9 all but shut in and out of Perth due to borken down or jack-knifed trucks, winter is sending a message as we begin to enter an unusually long stretch of winter weather. If I am correct, this ain't going to quit for quite sometime...

France Cans Carbon Tax – Viva la Revolucion! « Musings from the Chiefio

Now they are starting the march away from Cap and Trade (aka Cap and Tax).

The French have annulled their ‘carbon tax’. Go France!

Google Translate of the article.

A Response to Michael Mann | Paul C. Knappenberger - The SPPI Blog

In his December 18, 2009 op-ed, Dr. Michael Mann largely misses to point about the most important aspect of the contents of the climate emails. It is not so much what has appeared in the scientific literature after “decades of work by thousands of scientists around the world” regarding human-caused climate change, but what has not appeared in the literature. The emails reveal signs of manipulation of the peer-review process, and what’s worse, intimidation of individual researchers, from a group of prominent scientists who seek to closely guard their view of the evidence and who are largely intolerant of countervailing hypothesis or interpretations. The degree to which the extant scientific literature can be judged a fair representation of what our scientific understanding may have been like absent these tactics is impossible to ascertain. The unfortunate, but undeniable side effect, is that the foundation of state, national, and international assessments of the potential impacts of climate change and considerations of what actions may be necessary to mitigate them has been shaken—not by what our knowledge is, but by what it should be. The latter of which, through the actions revealed in the emails, has been rendered largely unknowable.

2009: What they said

“When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it is we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp, starve, sink and eventually die.” - President Mugabe at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen.

“Late believers and late comers cannot be dictators at this conference, besides they happen to be among the guiltiest on this matter.” - President Mugabe calls for the fulfilment of the Kyoto Protocol commitments