Thursday, October 04, 2012

How to argue with 'climate sceptics' - Blue and Green Tomorrow
The climate sceptic is a strange breed of human: irrational, intolerant and inflexible – traits that make arguments against them frustratingly difficult and painfully repetitive.
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- [Question for people who don't think that trace amounts of CO2 cause bad weather] What makes you hate the future so much?
...But please be careful of the lesser-spotted, extremely volatile and inherently nutty pollutocrat.
Transcript of press conference by Tony Abbott 4 Oct 2012 | The Stump
Now, I want manufacturing industries like this to flourish and the problem with the Prime Minister’s carbon tax is that it acts as reverse tariff on Australian manufacturing. The carbon tax hits the costs of this company but its import competition is entirely free of the carbon tax: that’s why this is a tax on Australian jobs, that’s why it’s a tax on Australian manufacturing, that’s why it’s a toxic tax and the first order of business for an incoming Coalition government will be to get rid of this toxic tax.

Increasingly, we see evidence that this is an arrogant and out of touch government. There are reports today that the Prime Minister’s own power bill at The Lodge has gone up by thousands of dollars as a result of the carbon tax. The Prime Minister is completely oblivious to the impact of the carbon tax on households. She is completely oblivious to the fact that the carbon tax is adding hundreds of dollars to the power bills of ordinary Australian families and the fact that this Prime Minister thinks that the carbon tax doesn’t hurt demonstrates that taxes are just going to go up and up and up. A government that thinks it can get away with tax increases is a government that is going to hit you with more tax increases.
Cap and spade: Will California’s carbon market dollars go to organic farms? | Grist
Borroughs doesn’t know what kind of carbon her family’s pastures may be sequestering, but she says she’d jump at the chance to find out if and when California’s cap-and-trade dollars fund the research.
USHCN Resolves Their Temperature Problem | Real Science
USHCN has been doing some spectacular work cooling the past and warming the present.
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Having been called out on this, they have fixed the problem by deleting all their data from disk. All of the monthly temperature data has gone missing.

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