Those who don’t learn from Yamal, are condemned to repeat it – Marcott’s YAD061

Steve McIntyre points out the YAD061 equivalent in Marcott et al, where a single sample contributed the majority of the uptick.

The Carbon Tax Is Overrated - Bloomberg

Nobody knows how big carbon's negative externality -- if any -- really is.
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The trouble with the carbon tax, for all its strengths, is that we don't know enough about the climate's future to set it correctly.

New Method Proves—Again—Climate Change Is Real: Scientific American

Another issue, said Christy, is the role of maximum and minimum temperatures. Minimum temperatures have risen more than maximum temperatures, possibly due to land-use changes, which, as Christy pointed out in his Senate testimony, can be problematic when creating warming trend lines, since temperatures are calculated as an average of minimum and maximum.

Green Weenie of the Week: The United States! | Power Line

These are grim times for the climate campaign, as we’ve noted here repeatedly. Cap and trade failed in the Senate, and isn’t ever coming back. The White House pre-emptively ruled out a carbon tax. The EPA, according to several reports, is going to miss a deadline this Friday on the next step in its coal-killing regulatory agenda, apparently because it has noticed that its proposed rules are unlikely to survive a court challenge in their form. And the UN’s Kyoto Protocol process has entered its full zombie mode, still walking around undead but incapable of sentient cognition.

But the real capper is that the United States actually achieved its (unratified) Kyoto Protocol target without the help of environmentalists.