Carbon scheme 'open to fraud' | The Australian

TONY Abbott has seized on warnings about fraud in international emissions trading schemes as a reason to dump Labor's planned carbon tax.

Amid concerns from the Australian Crime Commission and international fraud agencies, the Opposition Leader yesterday said there was "a lot of scope for scamming" within carbon trading schemes and strong enforcement would be required to police it.

"I think that we are going to have to have a very intrusive carbon cop if an emissions trading scheme carbon tax goes ahead," he said, speaking at Digga manufacturers on the Gold Coast yesterday. "It's one of the many reasons why I'm against it because I don't think we need the kind of intrusive regulation, the kind of intrusive supervision and enforcement that inevitably an effective carbon tax would need."

“Climastrologist” James Hansen versus reality - Wry Heat

Given the antics of “our leading climate scientist,” one wonders if climate science as practiced today is really a science. Maybe it should be called “climastrology.”