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Bailout climate with a carbon tax? Bush’s Bank Bailout Treas. Sec. Hank Paulson in NYT: ‘The coming climate crash…Let’s not ignore the climate bubble’ – Implies tax will make weather less extreme!

Hank Paulson in NYT: Bailout the climate with a carbon tax? ‘The Coming Climate Crash…Let’s not ignore the climate bubble’ Henry M. Paulson Jr. is the chairman of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago and secretary of the Treasury from July 2006 to January 2009. Excerpts: We’re staring down a climate bubble We’ve […]

Indian Environment Minister: ‘We need to grow’ – Developing Nations Have Right To Grow, CO2 Emissions May Rise

Indian Environment Minister: Developing Nations Have Right To Grow, CO2 Emissions May Rise http://www.thegwpf.org/indian-environment-minister-developing-nations-have-right-to-grow-co2-emissions-may-rise/ “Unless we tackle poverty, unless we eradicate poverty, we cannot really address climate change. To that end, we need to grow. Our net CO2 emissions may increase” Prakash Javadekar, India’s Environment minister has taken a bold stand on the carbon emissions […]

New paper predicts temperature decrease by 2020 of up to 1C due to low solar activity – Published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

New paper predicts temperature decrease by 2020 of up to 1C due to low solar activity http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-paper-predicts-temperature-decrease.html A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds long solar cycles predict lower temperatures during the following solar cycle. A lag of 11 years [the average solar cycle length] is found to provide maximum […]

New paper finds climate models simulate or predict only about 6% of altocumulus clouds – Published in Atmospheric Research

New paper finds climate models simulate or predict only about 6% of altocumulus clouds http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-paper-finds-climate-models-only.html A paper published today in Atmospheric Research finds “Altocumulus clouds are important, yet climate models have difficulties in simulating and predicting these clouds” and “Approximately 93.6% of Altocumulus clouds cannot be resolved by climate models with a grid resolution of […]