Mars has a simple climate compared to earth – but NASA now admits that its GCM for Mars just does not predict the climate.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4BF0AA20081216
Is it posisble that carbon emissions from the Mars Rovers is destabilising the atmosphere – bringing the entire plaent closer to a “Tipping Point”?
I am pretty worried about this – so any comments would be welcome.
John Menzies
There are… growing doubts about the long-term viability of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme. Read more here.
Folks,
As you might expect, Australia’s Canberra Times is a conformist newspaper that mostly goes along with the capital’s political fashions, and has long run the alarmist AGW line. Over the weekend there has been a turn-around. Their economics editor, a well respected David Alexander, has written a long opinion piece plus a news item, in which amongst other things to concedes that some of the climate critics are highly qualified and (based on the NZ precedent) suggests the possibility of a parliamentary enquiry into the ETS, about which he says “Much would be learnt, the public would be enthralled. Surely there is nothing to be afraid of?”.
This, and especially the understated rhetorical question, is a stunning development.
On top of which, retired ANU economics professor Richard Mulgan has an editorial in today’s Times that sings the praises of scepticism in general!
Finally, at the same time, our ABC has run an article about “carbon baggers” (lovely term!) chasing aboriginal interests, about which the blog response is almost entirely “a plague on the ETS house”.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/15/2446106.html
Things are moving, and by the sweetest irony that on the very day that the Rudd government has plumped for a timorous (though still silly, because it won’t have the faintest possible influence on future
temperature) 5% ETS rate.
Cathy
Australia’s Independent Complaints Review Panel (ICRP) has upheld a complaint made against a segment on the 7.30 Report, titled “Pulp mill could taint catch: fishing industry”, broadcast on 5 June 2007 and later made available on ABC Online. Read more here.
The only clear, outright winners from Australia’s climate-change policy unveiled on Monday are the accountants and lawyers who will have to make sense of it. Read more here.
If increasing temperatures are consistent with or are evidence of global warming, what theory is consistent with or evidence of falling temperatures? Global warming, too? Read more from William M. Briggs here.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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