Reason Science Writer Ron Bailey’s Libertarian Take on Climate, Free Markets | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

[Bailey] The atmosphere and the oceans are two of the largest commons. So what could you do to privatize them? One of the things that was suggested of course was a cap-and-trade program, which is essentially a kind of way of trying to privatize the atmosphere. That would be initially very attractive, you would think, to free-market people. But the problem is we’ve now seen the system following the Kyoto Protocol in Europe; we’ve seen how that system got gamed — a system of crony capitalism — and it has been a complete failure. Basically, you cannot trust countries to be honest with regard to their emissions, and to monitor that is almost impossible.
...I personally decided that a trading scheme on an international scale simply will not work.
...It occurs to me that you see this a lot now: Whenever an issue gets political salience, six months later you see a bunch of studies proving that whatever the ideological environmentalists have decided to go after is the case. I think this is a terrible problem with science. There are so many areas of science that have been politicized. Again, it is being used as a supposedly objective standard to support the policies you already prefer for other reasons. It happens on the left and on the right, and it really bugs me.

97% Of Sane People Agree That Fossil Fuels Have Saved Billions Of Lives | Real Science

Without fossil fuels and other petroleum based products, humans would still be living in mud shacks and dying at age 25.

Big Trouble Down At HQ? | Real Science

Antarctic ice area was poised to break the all time record for either pole today, but UIUC has not updated their table to day 2012.7316. They have however updated their Arctic table to day 2012.7316.

Why the delay? I can imagine that there are some interesting E-mails flying around at climate HQ right now.

Lewandowsky to Remove All Blog Based References « the Air Vent