EU to fund carbon capture with 300m [carbon swindle] allowances

Brussels, 4 February: EU member states have agreed to distribute 300 million carbon allowances from the bloc’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) to fund renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects from 2013.

This would amount to around €3.9 billion ($5.4 billion) at the current market price of about €13 per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2), but the sum could increase significantly if the price of carbon rises.

The allowances will be allocated from the ETS’ new entrants’ reserve – a quantity of allowances set aside for newly built installations.

Legislative committee passes climate-change resolution | Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — Citing cataclysmic impacts to the economy — from ranching to mining to small-business interests — a legislative committee Thursday threw its support behind a resolution urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to halt its carbon-dioxide reduction policies.
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"Sometimes when we don't have all the answers, we need to have the courage to do nothing," said Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, arguing forcefully on behalf of the resolution.
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Explicit in the resolution is the dismissal of global warming as a sound phenomenon and the assertion that the premise has given rise to a climate-change "gravy train" supported by an annual $7 billion in federal grants. At the same time, the resolution states, manipulating alarmists thwart the voices of skeptics.

"We seem to have lost our common sense in some of these matters," said Gibson, a dairy farmer from Weber County. "People pushing this squelch all the voices of opposition."

Climate Change [Insanity] On Navy's Radar

ATLANTA, Ga. - The director of the U.S. Navy's Task Force Climate Change (TFCC) said the earth is truly experiencing a climate change and the Navy needs to be prepared for potential impacts on its mission areas.

Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy and TFCC Director Rear Adm. David Titley made his remarks as part of a panel discussion on environmental security and climate change at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Atlanta last month.
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Titley said the rate of global warming has not slowed, and the long term trend is rising. The Arctic is among the areas seeing the greatest impact from climate change, with sea ice coverage during summer months steadily diminishing, and the ice is thinner when the Arctic Ocean freezes again in the winter.
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Titley said the ice volume has declined and is not coming back.

"We're really seeing a tremendous change in the Arctic," he said, adding that the "new" normal for the Arctic is to be not completely frozen all year.
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For instance, a sea-level rise of two meters can cause the Navy to evaluate which of its bases will be viable, and additionally queries whether or not the Navy should operate ice-hardened ships in an ice-diminished arctic, even though ice-hardened ships cost more to build and to operate.

Consequently, Titley said, the Navy is interested in reducing its carbon-based energy output by 50 percent by 2020.

You ask, I provide. November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt. « Watts Up With That?

[1922] Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.