NASA Thinks A 0.0001 Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Mole Fraction Will Tip Off Aliens | Real Science

They must have wiped out the dinosaurs for allowing CO2 to be 10X higher than at present. What are these imbeciles smoking at NASA?

Italy caught emitting 10 times as much of a potent greenhouse gas « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

HFC-23 is 15,000 times as potent as CO2 in the greenhouse gas stakes. It’s only made by six factories in the whole of Europe.

Given that, you would think that they’d have this one esoteric compound completely tracked, measured to the nth, audited and cross checked, right? After all, how devastating would it be if governments can’t report something as simple as HFC-23 accurately, how could they possibly expect to run a global trading scheme on a gas like CO2, which is not just made in hundreds of factories, but thousands of cities, millions of cars, and billions of animals. Well, if you thought someone somewhere had a handle on those numbers, get ready to be corrected. Not only did people think it was a good idea if countries self-assessed their emissions, but they trusted those countries to accurately report numbers that millions of dollars of payments rested on, and nobody was looking too hard over their shoulder.
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How emblematic of the whole enterprise. It’s like they don’t really care about the results

Walter Russell Mead Calls The Green Jobs Initiative “An Embarassing Mess”

[Mead] What worries me is that they didn’t understand that making something this bogus a central plank of his actual governing plan on an issue as vital as jobs would have serious costs down the road. Many liberals want green jobs to exist so badly that they don’t fully grasp how otherworldly and ineffectual this advocacy makes the President look to unemployed meat packers and truck drivers.”

Australian truckers protest against carbon tax law | World news | The Guardian

Hundreds of truckers circle Australia's parliament and call for elections in 'convoy of no confidence'