Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Michael Kieschnick: Ten Fights on Global Warming Now That the Senate Will Do Nothing
The reality that we must face is that there are not 60 votes in the Senate for even minimally acceptable global warming legislation. Not this year and definitely not in the next few years.
BusinessDay - PHILIP LLOYD: Climate change
Carbon tax is pointless and belongs in the rubbish bin
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Most South Africans experience a daily temperature variation of at least 15° C, and an annual variation of about 30° C. By contrast, 0,6° C per century is undetectable in terms of what we experience every year.
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Perhaps the whole carbon saga will prove a myth. Doomsayers have a history of commanding attention, then being shown wrong. Yet there is something in the human psyche that allows us to forgive them for being mistaken. After all, they might have been right — and then?

However, in the case of carbon, there is growing evidence that the predicted disasters of climate change will not happen.
Don’t sweat climate change, Nobel Prize-winning physicist says | Construction Industry News | Reed Construction Data
Thus climate ought not to concern us, “not because it is unimportant but because it’s beyond our power to control.”
Baffin Island average summer temperature
800 to 1992 (25-year moving average)

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