Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Confronting Climate Change Skeptics | Deep Sea News

In summary, CO2 traps heat, the concentration of CO2 is rising, and humans have dumped twice as much CO2 into the atmosphere as is necessary to account for that rise. We have a gun, the gun is smoking, and we pulled the trigger.

Stick to this argument, and you can win in the court of public opinion. The court of science ruled long ago, so public opinion is now the only court that matters. You’re not talking with words that put people to sleep immideately like “regional variability”, “Pleistocene”, or “adiabatic lapse rate”. Your talking about words that people understand. “Box”. “Temperature”. “Burn”. “Twice”. The only thing that might get them is “CO2”. But if they can’t stay awake for that, then you’re wasting your time.

UPDATE 1-Five EU states shut national CO2 accounts | Reuters

LONDON/PRAGUE, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Czech Republic, Greece, Estonia and Poland closed their carbon trading accounts on Wednesday, joining Austria in a new hiccup to hit the European Union's emissions trading scheme.

In the last two years the scheme, which limits carbon emissions by factories and power plants, has had to contend with upsets including the re-sale of used carbon credits, a phishing scam and continuing VAT fraud.

US climate bill author Lieberman to retire - News - Point Carbon

A senator who lent his name to five US cap-and-trade bills will announce his retirement today.

United States, Environment, Market for Carbon Allowances Remains Anemic

A combination of factors—the lack of a mandatory nationwide cap and trade system in the United States, the ongoing economic recession, and emission reduction goals that have been achievable without the need for allowances or offsets—continue to depress the price of carbon allowances.