Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Making Stuff Up at Real Climate

Real Climate has an interesting post up today in which Gavin Schmidt reports that, according to a new analysis, errors in climate data (ocean temperatures) may lead to a reduction in the 1950-2006 global temperature trend of 17%, perhaps more. This is a big deal scientifically and speaks to the certainty – in this case excessive -- with which climate science is often reported, especially by the IPCC.

Gillard gets it wrong again on Q&A, and will never sell this tax | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

On Q&A last night, Julia Gillard:

- dodged a question about her duty to seek an electoral mandate first before imposing this huge, risky and controversial tax.

- dodged again a question on how her tax would affect the climate, and whether the effect was so small as to not be worth the effort.
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- repeatedly used the deceit of calling carbon dioxide “pollution” without once being corrected by Jones.

- twice dodges an invitation to debate Tony Abbott on the science of global warming.

- again falsely claimed Margaret Thatcher backed what she was doing.

CO2 – The Unjust, Unstable Gas | Real Science

CO2 selectively attacks white polar bear cubs, and black and brown people. You can save these bears/people by paying CO2 alms to the church of global warming.

Quadrant Online - Why, why, why?

The impacts of the Gillard Government’s so-called Carbon Tax are so far-reaching that calculating the economic effects is impossible.

1955 – 28,000 Villages Wrecked By Low CO2 Floods | Real Science

Low CO2 floods were an act of God and were just, but smaller high CO2 floods are caused by humans and are unjust.

In Australia’s Misguided Carbon Tax, a Warning for the U.S.The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation

So Australia is poised to deal a body blow to its own economy in return for measures that will have a minuscule - imperceptible, even – impact on the global temperature. This is not model public policy.

That economic damage, both realized and expected, should serve as a warning for Americans who would advocate similar proposals: in order to make any significant dent in the global climate, economic self-immolation would be necessary. A proposal such as Australia’s is likely to do less – though significant – damage to the economy, but will do almost nothing to affect the planet’s climate.