Emissions fraud police are necessary: PM

A defiant Prime Minister Julia Gillard has returned to the carbon tax roadshow, saying tough penalties for emissions fraud are needed so that Australians are not ripped off.

She also vowed to explain the government's carbon pricing scheme for years to come.
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But opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said the need for "a whole new police force" was an admission by the government that some businesses would exploit the carbon tax.

How much would it cost to hire enough police to ensure that no one cheats in transactions involving large sums of money and a commodity that is invisible?

Study on how much heat cloud cover causes sparks debate, criticism from climate scientists - Warmist SETH BORENSTEIN

A study on how much heat in Earth's atmosphere is caused by cloud cover has heated up the climate change blogosphere even as it is dismissed by many scientists.
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"This is a very bad paper and is demonstrably wrong," said Richard Somerville, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. "It is getting a lot of attention only because of noise in the blogosphere."

Kerry Emanuel of MIT, one of two scientists who said the study was good, said bloggers and others are misstating what Spencer found. Emanuel said this work was cautious and limited mostly to pointing out problems with forecasting heat feedback. He said what's being written about Spencer's study by nonscientists "has no basis in reality."

How we know we're causing global warming in a single graphic

[Sorry, I'm still not convinced that this isn't the largest scientific fraud in human history]