Local woman heads to D.C. to fight climate change

SANTA MONICA BLVD — As she did research for her sci-fi novel, "While Rome Burns," a look at a world devastated by climate change, Santa Monican Laura Matthews discovered a new passion — fighting global warming.
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Matthews and others from the Citizens Climate Lobby will first advocate for the creation of a revenue-neutral carbon fee. This way if a company decides to spew carbon, they have to pay for it. This would encourage them to find an alternative to this harmful practice, Matthews said.
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In Matthews' novel the hero gets vaulted back to ancient Rome through time travel and tries to find out what needs to be done to prevent this climate change disaster.
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Matthews tries to get everything done by foot. She only put roughly 4,000 miles on her car last year.

Flashback: New technique shows Roman Warm Period Warmer than Present Day

Between 230 BC and 40 AD there was a period of exceptional warmth in Iceland that was coincident with the Roman Warm Period in Europe that ran from 200 BC to 400 AD. This Icelandic shell data series suggests that the RWP had higher temperatures that those recorded in modern times.

Gillard dodges the bottom-line question on her useless tax | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Every numerate person would know that Everingham’s question goes to that very claim: how much lower will the temperature be, because of the tax, than it would be without it. To the nearest 1000th of a degree.

And still Gillard refuses to tell you.

She’d die of shame if she had to. You are being denied the most basic fact about the carbon dioxide tax, because the truth would make you realise it is absolutely useless.

Articles: EPA: Thou Shalt Purchase Fuel That Doesn't Exist

ultimately, we will pay $6.8 million to the EPA because of Jackson's stupidity.