Global warming tidbits to start your week…
Filed Under: Green Politics on June 7, 2010
It’s so much fun to watch the wheels spinning off the global warming bus in so many different ways. Diversity in action, you might say. How many ways can the fraudulent scheme to separate you from your money fall apart? Let’s count just a few this morning.
1. Global Warming Questioned by Australiagate Revelations - Citizen watch dogs pull back the curtain on the Aussie’s global warming wizardry. “Following on from the Climategate scandal, an Aussie researcher identifies what may be similar issues of alleged global warming data fudging in a controversy that has been dubbed, ‘Australiagate’,” reports John O’Sullivan.
“Retired school principle, Ken Stewart has completed his detailed study of the Australian Temperature Record: ‘Part 2- Northern Territory’ that follows on from his raw data analysis of Queensland. His findings are published on his blog, ‘Kenskingdom.’ Ken explains how he did his analysis; ‘I downloaded annual mean maxima and minima for each of the sites from the BOM Climate Data Online [Australian Bureau of Meteorology], calculated annual means and plotted these’.”
2. Talks won’t arrest global warming in next decade: UN climate chief Yvo de Boer says the global climate negotiations won’t lead to “adequate mitigation targets” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. Pity, eh? But optimism reigns supreme. De Boera says eventually it will. Pity, eh?
3. Western U.S., Canadian Carbon Market Faces Scaled-Back Start. Bloomberg reports this encouraging news: “A proposed carbon cap-and-trade program for the western U.S. and parts of Canada is likely to start out smaller than planned because some state governments don’t have laws in place to join the regional emissions market. The Western Climate Initiative, comprised of seven U.S. states and four Canadian provinces, aims to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 15 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. Its centerpiece is a cap-and-trade program in which industrial polluters like power plants and oil refineries buy and sell carbon dioxide allowances.”
Nice to see things moving in the right directly, albeit haltingly. What do you think?
