Rodney Hide’s been allowed to write in the Herald on Sunday.
This week he talks about the ETS and he’s not kind about it. The carbon price has collapsed and the government’s changed the playing field so the trading will probably never recover. Shame.
He mentions the CCG blog (thanks, Rodney!) and something I said about selling unwanted CO2. Stirred up a large number of comments. Do join in.
As the models continue to leave actual temperature readings in their dust, sizeable warming halted about 1995 — although it might resume at any time. It must hasten to have any hope of catching up with the predictions.
If you claim warming continues, we want evidence of continued warming — eminently reasonable. Making us wait for 17 years for that evidence invites us to doubt you.
Claiming that warming hasn't stopped is the same as claiming it has — and both are ridiculous, for nobody knows the future. The best you can do is describe the past.
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About 2000, climate scientists predicted, and the IPCC agreed, that, if the global temperature was strongly influenced by carbon dioxide (or GHG generally), there'd be a unique "fingerprint" publicising that influence high over the tropics — a tropospheric hot spot. So they started looking for it — and they haven't given up.
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Sadly we live in an ineptocracy – see jo nova’s article.
Lots of empty headed anti asset sales supporters all wanting a stronger ETS even though 1.78 million ha of forestry have been sold to overseas investors – fed farmers 28 apl 2012
Yes, a great article by Mr. Hide. The comments appear to be running about 10-to-1 in support of his OP.
Yes I was looking for the in-favour comments.
Glad to see Rodney repeating the basic climate sensitivity arguments. There aren’t many former or current politicians who do this.
An excellent article by Rodney. The blatherings of those who disagree with him are quite funny!