Hot debate | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Spectator announces a debate. The proposition: that carbon taxes will improve the Australian way of life.

Aus: Carbon [dioxide] tax to cost Qld $150m next year | JunkScience.com

This is simply the Feds stealing State revenue. We all know it can have no discernible effect on global mean temperature.

Cheating : Business As Usual In Climate Science | Real Science

This graph fascinates me. The proxy data shows steady cooling for 8,000 years, but that isn’t what alarmists want to see. So Conneley stuck in two phony arrows showing what he wants people to believe.

Either you trust the proxy data or you don’t. You can’t pick and choose, and splice in uncalibrated data using a different measurement system. Some proxies show that the temperature was 1.5C warmer 8,000 years ago.

In the private sector, a scientist or engineer who pulled a stunt like this would be fired and possibly prosecuted.

Conn Carroll: Obama’s Lame Duck Plan to Pass Cap and Trade | JunkScience.com

President Obama’s plans to pass economy killing cap and trade regulations may have died in the Senate in 2010. But, if Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., gets his way, they will be resurrected after the presidential election.

James D. Agresti: Bans on plastic bags harm the environment | JunkScience.com

Why is this? Because the environmental impacts of supermarket bags are dominated by the energy and raw materials needed to manufacture them. Plastic bags are inexpensive because relatively small amounts of energy and raw materials are needed to make them. These same attributes that make plastic bags affordable and light also make them easier on the environment than alternatives like paper bags and reusable cotton totes.