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Carbon Tariffs, New Report by Tim Wilson

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Hi Jennifer

For your interest, today the IPA released a short research paper on carbon tariffs at the WTO Ministerial in Geneva. The short and sharp of the report is that carbon tariffs are　a costly, ineffective policy instrument to offset domestically imposed carbon price signals, are likely in violation of WTO obligations and would likely sit around 10 per cent for US carbon-intensive products.

http://sustainabledev.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Carbontariffs.pdf 

Tim Wilson
Director, Climate and Trade Unit
Institute of Public Affairs

‘Climategate’ Papers at SPPI

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Hi Jennifer

A new SPPI paper by Christopher Monckton has just been posted concerning “Climategate.”

It is an expose of the corruption, the real science and what it all means in context.　 It can be viewed and downloaded at any of these three links:

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climategate.html

http://sppinstitute.org/originals/climategate.html

http://bit.ly/5vyqKv

This will be highly valuable to the science-trained and the layman alike.　 Please copy and or distribute it to others as you see fit.　

It carries at the end about three pages of Essential Readings in climate science – a small, linkable library. Regards,  Bob

 

 

At Least Listen to the Sceptics

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AN unfortunate characteristic of most of the public discussion on global warming is the name-calling peppered with false claim suggesting that there are very few so-called “sceptics”.   Last week Liberal Senator, Nick Minchin, was identified as not only a climate change sceptic but labelled a “denier” because of his stand against the emissions trading legislation which was being debated in the federal parliament. In fact, there are sceptics in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s own Cabinet but for the sake of politics they are keeping quiet, or gagged.  Read more here.

Postscript

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Update August 1, 2010 – There will be a federal election in Australian on August 21, 2010.  Neither of the major parties has a serious climate change policy.   ‘Least-worst climate policy?’ by Jennifer Marohasy at Quadrant Online.

Update June 21, 2010 – I am back publishing in the peer-reviewed literature.  First article for a while:  ‘Accessing environmental information relating to climate change: a case study under UK freedom of information legislation’, by John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy, Environmental Law and Management, Issue 1, Volume 22 [2010]. 

Update December 12th, 2009 –  Jennifer Marohasy is no longer regularly posting at this weblog.   But occasionally posts information from friends at the community thread [ https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/category/community/ ].   Dr Marohasy is still writing for The Land and some of her columns for this and other newspapers can be read at her website [ https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/articles.php ].

Dr Marohasy was publically documenting discrepancies – including incomplete data sets being used by top UK climate scientists that spuriously support the case for global warming – before the now infamous emails from the Climate Research Centre in the UK were leaked.  She gives informative and entertaining talks on global warming and other environmental issues [ https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/display/speaker.html ].

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Lance Endersbee (1925-2009): Civil Engineer, Academic, Scientific Sceptic, Mentor

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Lance_Experience Curve CO2 and SST with 21 moving average 12May09I NEVER met Professor Endersbee, but we corresponded by email.

He contacted me about six years ago when I was working on the Murray River and water issues. He expressed concern about Australia’s great artesian basin and over extraction of what he considered a finite resource.

We later corresponded over climate change issue. Lance believed we must try harder to understand the causes of natural climate change instead of assuming anthropogenic global warming. He was particularly interested in the oceans as a source of carbon dioxide. On June 24, 2009 he wrote:

“The relationship between CO2 and ocean temperature is ordained by the solubility relationship.   I attach [see above] a chart showing my experience curve for the only reliable temperature records we have. It is difficult to argue against a correlation of 0.99.   [Read more…] about Lance Endersbee (1925-2009): Civil Engineer, Academic, Scientific Sceptic, Mentor

Scientist Steve Schneider Flips Fears

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On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age.  Watch the old footage on YouTube here.