Boxer hints carbon tax could be part of larger budget deal

But Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), the top Republican on Boxer's committee, said he envisions a very different kind of carbon legislation that would strip U.S. EPA of the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
"It's an easy fix," he said. "I believe Republicans will have control of the Senate and [Mitt Romney will] defeat Obama. If that happens, it's an easy fix because it's a legislative fix."

Northern Scandinavian Temperatures of the Past 2000 Years

In a game-changing paper published in the online version of Nature Climate Change, Esper et al. (8 July 2012) provide convincing evidence that both the Medieval and Roman Warm Periods of 1000 and 2000 years ago, respectively, were warmer than the Current Warm Period has been to date, in spite of the fact that today's atmospheric CO2 concentration is some 40% greater than it was during those two earlier periods.

Snowfall and Snow Depth in Switzerland

Clearly, the predictions of the IPCC regarding a propensity for more extreme precipitation events to occur in a warming world has not been seen in Switzerland. In fact, just the opposite appears to be the case there.

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