The Courier - Climate change campaigner says high prices will force us to confront reliance on fossil fuels

Mr van Koten, a lecturer in sustainability at Dundee University, said, "No one likes taxes or any other additional financial burden but if we look at the bigger picture anything that produces greenhouse gases should, in a sense, be taxed.

RealClimate: Going to extremes

# Not all extremes are the same.....
# There is no theory or result that indicates that climate change increases extremes in general. ...
# Some extremes will become more common in future (and some less so). We will discuss the specifics below.
# Attribution of extremes is hard.