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Carbon Tax Threatens Blackouts | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Britain’s unilateral carbon tax should be scrapped before it causes blackouts, pushes up household bills and makes the UK uncompetitive, ScottishPower argues.

Trenberth and Fasullo Try to Keep the Fantasy Alive | Watts Up With That?

The Trenberth and Fasullo “cherry picking” is with their end dates, of course. They ended the recent data period in 2008, while the halt in global warming has continued for 5 more years, through year-to-date 2013.

A few facts on Flannery, Climate Council, and prophecies of bushfire: no long trends for Katoomba « JoNova

Let’s get the facts straight on exactly how human emissions of CO2 have affected the temperature and rainfall in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. How much hotter and drier is the climate? Ninety percent of human emissions have been produced since WWII. Katoomba has the longest running temperature series I could find in the BOM records -see below. But where is that rising trend? The string of hot years in the late 1930s appears to be just as hot as the last decade. The 1920s and 30s look a lot like the 1980 and 90s.