The Single Most Important Point | Climate Skeptic

I usually put it this way to laymen: Imagine the Earth’s climate is a car. Greenhouse gas theory says CO2 will only give the car a nudge. In most cases, this nudge will only move the car a little bit, because a lot of forces work to resist the nudge. Climate theory, however, assumes that the car is actually perched precariously at the very top of a steep hill, such that a small nudge will actually start the car rolling downhill until in crashes. This theory that the Earth is perched precariously on the top of the hill is positive feedback theory, and is far from settled. In fact, a reasonable person can immediately challenge it by asking the sensible question — “well, how has the climate managed to avoid a nudge (and resulting crash) for hundreds of millions of years?”

European emission trading rocked by scandal over recycled carbon permits | The Australian

EUROPE'S emissions trading system was in uproar yesterday amid a mounting scandal over "recycled" carbon permits.

Two carbon exchanges were forced to suspend trading as panic hit investors fearful that they had bought invalid permits.

BlueNext and Nord Pool, the French and Nordic exchanges, suspended trading in certificates of emission reduction (CERs) when it emerged that some had been illegally reused.

Concern that used and worthless permits were circulating caused the spot price of the certificates to collapse, from €12 ($17.87) a tonne of carbon to less than €1.

Catlin Arctic Survey [again: have we told you lately just how cold it still is up here?]: 'It's -38C but worth all the hardship'

Catlin touches down on the Arctic ice and begins taking samples straight away despite problems with their water

Twitter / Kate Sheppard

@EricPooley's forthcoming book, The Climate War, just landed on my desk; I let out an audible squeal of delight.