[Tim Worstall:  Have I told you lately that we need a massive tax that will allegedly pay off by preventing bad weather?]  - Forbes

My basic view (and yes, I know many disagree) is that climate change is happening, it’s a problem and we ought to do something about it. What we ought to do about it is is impose that carbon tax: the $80 per tonne CO2 (actually, CO2-e) that the Stern Review recommended and then let the market work it out.

San Francisco activists wary of U.N. climate reunion in Rio | SF Public Press

The Bay Area is the unofficial headquarters of the green movement and the progenitor of the United Nations. So locally based environmental groups are particularly annoyed this week that the U.S. government continues to sideline climate change as world leaders prepare to gather in Brazil in late June.