"Climategate" Researchers Cleared—But Don't Expect the Controversy to End

Will skeptics lay down their arms? Since this is an English affair, let's put it in their terms: not bloody likely. For years, climate researchers and activists who were convinced of the danger of global warming believed that the public would wake up if they just had access to the right information, the right studies, that showed how frightening climate change really was. The reason the public wasn't clamoring for a carbon cap was because fossil fuel interests—aided and abetted by a lazy media—were blocking that information, obscuring the picture, as Joe Romm of ClimateProgress wrote in a recent post.

Chile's Daiy News Brief: July 8th

Due to the heavy frost and cold weather expected in the next days, the Victor Jara Stadium will reopen as a place of shelter for those without homes. The city council of Santiago said these extraordinary measures will apply on the nights of Wednesday, July 7 and Thursday, July 8.

Record cold snap puts pressure on growers - inMyCommunity - Perth, Western Australia

Technical officer at WA Climate Service, Michelle Dalpozzo, said that the bureau considered anything below 5C a cold night and Perth was experiencing its coldest winter on record.

“We’ve definitely set a record with 14 consecutive nights,” she said. “The last time it was this cold in Perth was in July 1997 for nine days.”

[What's the all-in cost of providing this useless data?]: Carbon emissions by local authority. Full data visualised | Environment | guardian.co.uk

For the first time the carbon emissions of every local authority have been released. Find out how yours does

CBO Plays “Let’s Pretend” on Kerry–Lieberman Scoring | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Here’s a principles-of-economics question: Suppose the U.S. gross domestic product (national income) is currently $14 trillion. Then suppose the U.S. raised all tariff, income tax, and sales tax rates to 100 percent. How much money would the government collect? If you realized that nobody would generate taxable income under such a regime and answered “zero,” congratulations.

If, instead, you answered $14 trillion, you may have a future at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), because that is how they analyze (score) the fiscal impacts of the Kerry–Lieberman climate change bill.