Sunday, March 14, 2010

The Silly Season Is Upon Us: Fiorina Goes After Boxer on Climate Action : TreeHugger
The video spends a fair share of its time on Boxer's support for an economy wide cap-and-trade system that would price carbon emissions and put the country on a road that leads to energy independence and job creation. Yet Fiorina doesn't engage on a substantive level with voters on climate change or on the policy options from which country must choose. Instead, she uses the same old Republican fear tactics of saying climate action would kill jobs and create new taxes. She also mocks Boxer for saying that climate change is a national security threat.
...If Fiorina wants the vote of the rest of California--let's call this block the reality-based vote--then she's going to need to accept reality and tell us her plan for converting our economy to a clean and green one. Vicious videos may get Fiorina headlines, but they won't stop the planet from warming.
[Is there a money-back guarantee if it doesn't?]: London landmark building will generate 8% of its energy needs | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Rooftop turbines on the 'Razor' are first in world to be built into fabric of apartment block
Cars, bombs and climate change: Lomborg
For example, a sea-level rise of five meters - more than eight times what the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expects, and more than twice what is probably physically possible - would not deluge all or even most of mankind. Of course, such a rise would not be a trivial problem.

It would affect about 400 million people, force the relocation of 15 million, and imply costly protection of the rest. But it would certainly not mean the end of the world. Estimates show that the cost in terms of adaptation would be less than 1% of global GDP. In other words, the price of unchecked global warming may be high, but it is not infinite

According to the best global-warming economic models, every ton of carbon dioxide that we put into the atmosphere now will do about $7 worth of damage to the environment.
Why Temperatures Matter vs Anomalies « Musings from the Chiefio
Now consider that ALL the global temperature series are based on much more complicated and much more “mucked with” anomalies based on temperatures that have had all sorts of adjustments, in-fill, “correction” etc. done to them. Do you really trust that to be valid to the 1/100 C place? Even 1/10 C?

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