William M. Briggs, Statistician » Global Warming: Is Weight Loss A Solution?

People are no different than food animals: they take up carbon because fat is made from carbon. Thus, since fat people store more carbon than thin, it might benefit our precious atmosphere to encourage more people to double dip their potato chips.

This analysis is no more speculative than that offered by our authors. Mine and theirs are probably both wrong, and wrong in ways that are unpredictable and unanticipated. The only difference between the two analyses is that mine does not pretend to posses scientific certitude.

The sad tale of a bipolar trace gas « The Daily Bayonet

The remarkable story of how a trace gas changed personality can now be revealed.

Prior to 1800, CO2 was happy to follow temperature. It let relative warmth take the lead and would happily amble along in its footsteps. But in 1800, something in CO2 just snapped. Without warning, CO2 became an alpha gas and would no longer follow temperature.

Temperature was very confused by suddenly being forced to follow CO2.

Australian Cabinet to vote on carbon tax - UPI.com

Wednesday's announcement follows a protest by about 2,000 Australians on Tuesday