Taxing Temperature as Climate Policy: McKitrick’s Proposal Reconsidered — MasterResource

Now here’s the rub: The initial tax would need to start out quite low, in case the “skeptics” are right. In other words, if the whole point of McKitrick’s proposal is to satisfy both skeptics and fans of the IPCC, then it wouldn’t work to start out with a high carbon tax. If global temperatures stayed flat or fell over the coming decades, that means the skeptics were right, but in that case we would have suffered the imposition of a large and inappropriate tax on behavior far out of proportion to the externalities involved. So this is why the initial McKitrick tax couldn’t be too high. [Shouldn't it start out at zero, the same as our current taxation for defense against Sasquatch and Monster-Under-The-Bed attacks?]

» ClimateGate’s Next Phase: False Claims Act Lawsuit - Big Government

A climate fraud False Claims Act suit would be no small undertaking. The rewards, however, could be quite substantial, and not just in monetary terms. Who would like to see a videotaped deposition of a climate-change fraudster defending his or her actions under oath? I sure would.

Bono’s Sexy-Fascist Dream Car - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit — Can’t fit enough go-green lecturing in the pages of the New York Times from Thomas Friedman — he of the 10,000-square-foot mansion and globetrotting carbon footprint? The paper of record has tapped international do-gooder Bono (a.k.a., Paul Hewson) — the jet-setting U2 rocker whose world tour just left a Madonna-dwarfing, 65,000-ton carbon footprint — to lecture us on car design.

[But he's not even a climatologist!]: Bono: Biography from @U2

As a child, his education started at The Inkwell, a small Protestant Church of Ireland junior school, before eventually continuing on to St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir School. But his time there was unsuccessful; as Bono put it, "I spent a year at St. Patrick's, not being happy, and basically they asked me to leave." This was largely a result of the young Paul throwing dog feces at his Spanish teacher

Global Warming Clearinghouse: 05 Jan 2010 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

Leaning toward closing the Blog. My work here appears to be done. Thanks to all who have visited.

Climategatekeeping: the Nature Intervention « Climate Audit

Both at the time and in retrospect, this seemed like a very unsatisfactory disposition of the matter.

One wonders how much more rational the subsequent debate would have been if Nature had published our original comment.

Die Klimazwiebel: A Tale of Two Consensus

The question is, does Science’s quest for appropriate image come at a cost to content? Can the charges leveled against ‘industry’ funded research be applied to ‘we want to have a green image’ commercial (Science is a commercial enterprise) journal? Does advertising have a place in academic journals?

EU Referendum: Pachauri: the cover-up begins

Now Siderian has removed the incriminating evidence from its website, we can expect more of this as Pachauri and his cronies attempt to cover their tracks. But these are the actions of guilty men. If they had nothing to hide, their names would still be on the website and they would still be declaring their intent to provide "access, standing and industrial exposure at the highest level".