American Thinker: CARB's Carbon Capers

The "Cooler Heads" blog relates that the adopted regulation is more than three thousand pages long, but most of the details have yet to be worked out. CARB rushed to meet a December 31 deadline set by the 2006 legislation that authorizes CARB to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. In order to protect California businesses from out-of-state competition, CARB will (initially) allocate emissions credits (aka energy-rationing coupons) for free. The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the only precedent for free allocation of carbon credits; it resulted in windfall profits for politically connected industries and higher electricity prices for consumers.

Not surprisingly, the New York Times approves of the scheme

American Thinker: The Winner of This Year's 'Best Climate Predictor' Award (Clue: It Wasn't Al Gore!)

So who is the best climate predictor of the year? Obviously, that honor goes to Piers Corbyn and his fellow astrophysicists. Who is the worst? Al Gore, followed closely by Gov. Schwarzenegger and the U.N.'s IPCC. The last entrant's mischief-making has already cost the U.S. billion of dollars and brought Spain to the edge of bankruptcy, and it promises to make China the principal beneficiary of any further action. President Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency appear determined to bankrupt the U.S. and send what remains of U.S. manufacturing to China.

Climate Common Sense: Guardian Prattles On In Complete Denial of Reality!

The Guardian mentions in passing the third horrific winter in a row as it waffles about insects and butterflies migrating north because of the warming! I guess they don't have windows in the Guardian headquarters and get all their climate news from the Met Office-Global Warming Central in the UK.

Lake Ice Like It’s 1972 All Over Again « Musings from the Chiefio

What does this chart show? The ice is off to a very good start with the amount being rather like it was back in 1972. A whole lot of heat is coming out of the water (as that ice is made) and going into the air. Just another example of why temperature is a lousy proxy for heat flow.

What would make a good climate bumper sticker? « Climate Progress

I don’t find it problematic that one has a bumper sticker against global warming on one’s car.