Paul Driessen: Hunting for scapegoats won’t lower pump prices | JunkScience.com

Exporting gasoline and diesel fuel creates jobs and prosperity

Are there no educated adults at UCAR? | JunkScience.com

Surely there must be someone at UCAR with a working knowledge of math who can also look up IPCC reference material and discover that there is not now, nor can there ever be a climatic case for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)? Or is it perhaps an employment requirement they all be severely beaten with the stupid stick?  

The forcing (warming) power of CO₂ falls away dramatically. Doubling CO₂ from pre industrial levels actually does next to nothing by the IPCC’s own formula.

- Bishop Hill blog - Mathematical models for newbies

Reader Andrew sent me his summary of the basics of mathematical models, which I think readers will find useful.

Low international carbon price will ‘hamper investment’ | JunkScience.com

THE head of a group of investment institutions with funds under management of $700 billion has expressed concern that low international carbon prices will stall potential commitments to large low-emissions projects globally.

Climate change: make industry pay for carbon emissions, US congressman says | JunkScience.com

Told you he was an economic and scientific illiterate: Putting a price on carbon will benefit environment and cut deficit by raising money, Henry Waxman argues

The Reference Frame: James Hansen's religious TED talk

Our communists have crippled our economy and they continued to do so for 42 years but none of them has ever been so stupid not to see that the forced transition to a source of energy (something so universally important) that would be 5 times more expensive is bound to have a detrimental effect on the economy, regardless of any details about the question how the lost money is distributed among the companies or consumers or taxpayers.



We face the equivalent of a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth, he says. ;-)