Gust Of Hot Air: Analysis of Australian Temperature - Part 7 - Adjusting temperature for cloud cover

Perhaps it is true that we are overestimating how much Australia is warming up by more than double. But there is more to come on this

Even Warmist datasets show that U.S. regional temperature trends are DOWNWARDS

Since U.S. temperature data is by far the most extensive such databody that there is, a Swedish blogger has been laboriously tabulating the temperature trends for various U.S. regions over recent years. She uses the 9-month average (Jan-Sept) so that she can include data from the current year.

So that's that, then | Australian Climate Madness

Let’s remind ourselves. This is a tax that:

• will do nothing for the climate – nothing  at all
• is based on corrupted and partial science, influenced by environmental activist groups
• will disadvantage our economy when most other nations are backing away from climate action
• is a breach of an express pre-election promise
• is nothing more than a bribe to buy the support of the Greens, who are today crowing at their “success”
• commits economic suicide when GFC Mk II is just around the corner
• the majority of the population opposes.

Twice as expensive, twice as broad | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Australia’s carbon price will start at $23 a tonne, rising to $29 by 2015, when it is scheduled to become an emissions trading scheme linked to international markets.

European firms are paying under $12.60 for carbon emissions permits after the market crashed to a four-year low amid uncertainty over the economic bailout of Greece.

Flashback: Death to the Chicago Climate Exchange ($7.40 to a nickel per CO2 ton, the market has spoken) « 21st Century Wire

The death rattles have come with each price decline per ton of carbon credits. Compared to $7.40 per ton in May 2008 when cap-and-trade legislation was eagerly anticipated, CCX’s market price tanked to $0.10 per ton in August 2010 and half that last month.  So much for a contrived opportunity in a pretense  market.  What a difference a couple of years, a few scientific scandals, and old-fashioned political gridlock make.