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Here’s the latest cool idea from the geniuses behind global warming - carbon ration cards.

According to an article in the Daily Mail,

Every adult should be forced to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say.

The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalising the poor.

Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights.

So what if you run out of carbon credits to heat your house in the winter? You buy more from someone who has more than they need! It’s cap-and-trade for individuals! Just what the British economy needs. [Read more →]

Tags: Climate Change, Liberalism by Publius
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Lawrence Solomon made a presentation at the Petroleum Club in Calgary and discussed the scientific consensus that global warming proponents are always talking about.

Let me tell you why most people think that global warming is a serious problem. It comes down to one number: 2500. That’s the number of scientists associated with the UN’s Panel on Climate Change that the press reports has endorsed the UN Panel’s conclusions. These are the conclusions that get released in the UN’s mammoth reports every six years or so, and that then dominate the media airwaves for weeks.

“2500 scientists can’t be wrong,” the press always says, explicitly or implicitly. Without that number, it would have no basis for the claim that they repeat over and over again — that there’s a consensus on climate change.

2500 is an impressive number of scientists. To find out who, exactly, they were, I contacted the Secretariat of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and asked for their names. The Secretariat replied that the names were not public, so I couldn’t have them. And I learned that the 2500 scientists were reviewers, not endorsers.

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Tags: Climate Change, Liberal Hypocrisy, Oil, Welfare by Publius
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Bret Stephens has a wonderful opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Global Warming as Mass Neurosis.

He opens:

Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the mass hysteria phenomenon known as global warming. Much of the science has since been discredited. Now it’s time for political scientists, theologians and psychiatrists to weigh in.

Stephens discusses some inconvenient truths:

• The hottest year on record in the continental 48 was not 1998, as previously believed, but 1934
• Six of the 10 hottest years since 1880 antedate 1954
• Data from 3,000 scientific robots in the world’s oceans show there has been slight cooling in the past five years
• The extent of Antarctic sea ice has been expanding for years
• As of February, last winter was the Northern Hemisphere’s coldest in decades
• German climate modelers reported in the journal Nature that global warming is due for a decade-long vacation.

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Tags: Climate Change, Liberal Hysteria by Publius
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