Paying people to use less energy will save money | Dustin Benton | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Rising prices are supposed to make us use less, which means less cost and less carbon in the atmosphere. But the consumer pain of price rises also creates a political demand for action to cut prices, which has fed demands on George Osborne to cut "green levies" on our bills. Doing so would be counterproductive, because it will raise future bills.

It won't even have much effect on current bills.

Dangerous 21st Century Warming Trend Continues Unabated In The US | Real Science

2011 is the eighth warmest year out of the last eleven!

It Must Be The Trapped Heat | Real Science

Multi-year ice is being rapidly lost off the coast of northern Greenland. Temperatures there are close to -30C.

Washington Post – Down Is Up | Real Science

The fact that temperatures are going down doesn’t mean that they are not going up.
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UAH shows 2011 0.37 degrees cooler than 2010, which wipes out almost half the warming over the last 150 years. That is what WaPo means by slight cooling. However, a tree in Siberia tells us that the world is actually warming very fast. (Well, actually the tree didn’t tell us that, so we had to quit listening to it in 1960.)

[He's everywhere:  Well-financed warmist Revkin to take yet another unnecessary fossil-fueled trip]

AMES, Iowa - Andrew Revkin, who has written on global environmental issues for The New York Times since 1995, will speak at Iowa State University on Monday, Oct. 24. "9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?" will be at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union Great Hall.