Vast Majority of Americans Oppose Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Gas Tax Bill | Stop the Energy Tax | American Solutions

Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman are getting ready to introduce a bill in the U.S. Senate that will impose dramatically higher gas taxes, which 7 in 10 Americans oppose according to a new American Solutions poll.

Buying carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Voluntary carbon offsets are a 'Wild West' market ripe for fraud, exaggeration, and poorly run projects that probably do little to ease global warming.

Al Fin: Damned Elusive Heat: Is it in Heaven Or is it in Hell?

...in climate science the steps are altered:

1. Draw a Conclusion
2. Communicate your Results
3. Construct a Hypothesis consistent with your Results and supportive of the Conclusion
4. Build a Model designed to achieve the Results and support the Hypothesis
5. Analyse Your Data for as long as it takes until your communicated Results are supported
6. Ignore any Real World data that conflicts with Hypothesis, Results, or Conclusions
7. Re-Communicate your Results as having been doubly confirmed

Carbon offsets: How a Vatican forest failed to reduce global warming / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

From a scheme to create an algae bloom in the South Pacific to a Vatican forest in the plains of Hungary – how one carbon offset developer's ideas failed to reduce global warming.