Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Life On The Safe Side Of The Tracks | Real Science
So how safe was the climate before 350 ppm?...
Climate Responses: Primal Easy, Ethical Hard - NYTimes.com
Any reasonable climate [scam] policy has two components: adaptation and resilience to limit climate risk and mitigation of emissions to limit the odds of human activities jolting the system in ways we’d long regret.
Obama's Chunky Energy-Climate Plan - NYTimes.com
One option Hurowitz highlights is a proposal by the investor George Soros to build the green fund by drawing on a small portion of a kind of virtual currency at the International Monetary Fund, called Special Drawing Rights.

As soon as someone offers a trenchant explanation of how that would work, I’ll let you know what I think. My initial reaction is deep skepticism.

I’d also put Obama’s proposed permanent research tax credit and Re-Energyse program way ahead of the tax credit for carbon-storing agriculture, given that many scientists studying the potential of farmland and forests to store CO2 have echoed Kevin Gurney of Purdue, a specialist in the carbon cycle who recently told me that in this arena, “the policy is way ahead of the science.”

That kind of warning stokes my deep skepticism, as well.
The Prox: Orszag '91 and Volcker '49 Attend Global Cooling Conference
The power broker elite attending the Bilderberg conference in Sitges, Spain this June gave global warming the cold shoulder. It was pretty much Reunions again at the conference during which "Global Cooling" was featured as a main presentation.

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