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• Why not tie carbon taxes to actual levels of warming?

• Former climate change holy-roller Helen Clark slams carbon-cutting travel and trade restrictions as idiotic; Greenpeace seethes.

• Gaia attacks Pearl Jam.

Mark S. Lawson: “In the current climate (pun intended) only a brave mid-career environmental scientist would voice scepticism. The scientist’s funding would almost certainly depend on some greenhouse body, and discrimination can be expected.”

• Become a climate change presenter.

• Thrill to the absolutely non-whiny vocal stylings of Tim Lambert: “UuUUsed”! “TOtal”!

• A greenster admits: “‘It’s definitely akin to religion,’ says Natasha Lewis, who manages Organic Trader, a company that sells eco-friendly cleaning products ... ‘Religion provides people with guidelines with which to approach their lives, and I don’t think that being green is that different.’”

• Yay for the warmening!

• Here’s one drag racing meet that Iowahawk won’t be attending.

• Before he became Mr Green, The Goracle once accused George H.W. Bush of minimising the threat presented by Saddam Hussein. These days he accuses George W. Bush of overstating Saddam’s menace.

• A fifty-year-old carbon monster returns to the surface.

• Europe is way behind its Kyoto targets. Perhaps they’ll catch up by banning fast cars.

Hoofy hasn’t accused me of quote-mining him again. Must be losing my touch.

Posted by Tim B. on 06/17/2007 at 12:29 PM
  1. Become a climate change presenter.

    Successful applicants will attend a two and a half day training seminar with Al Gore, eminent Australian scientists and expert public speaking trainers.

    Not sure I would use the word “successful”.

    Perhaps “unfortunate”.

    Posted by rinardman on 2007 06 17 at 12:55 PM • permalink

  2. This thread made shivers shoot up my spine.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 17 at 02:16 PM • permalink

  3. Here’s one drag racing meet that Iowahawk won’t be attending.

    I dunno. I could see Iowahawk burning rubber right through the middle of a pack of geen weeniemobiles with one of these , just for fun.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 17 at 03:04 PM • permalink

  4. A fifty-year-old carbon monster returns to the surface.

    A 1957 Plymouth exhumed from a time capsule! I’ll take it! It’ll be my Gaia-busting golem!

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 17 at 03:53 PM • permalink

  5. 1957 Plymouth.

    Posted by chrisgo on 2007 06 17 at 05:07 PM • permalink

  6. Another 1957 Plymouth this one with drought breaking anti-global warming water.

    Come on guys, who left the windows open???

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 17 at 06:57 PM • permalink

  7. In 1963 my best friend in high school ‘inherited’ a ‘57 Plymouth with the V8 and push-button shift.  It was a beast.  Gas was about 23 cents a gallon and 4-5 of us rode all over 4 counties in it.  Much beer consumed.  We had more trouble keeping it in tires than in gas.  Good times.  Good times.

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 17 at 07:31 PM • permalink

  8. Please don’t link to Tim Lambert ever again.  His ‘argument’ is crap, of course, and I don’t need to listen to crap arguments in that whiny voice.

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 17 at 07:34 PM • permalink

  9. I have never been in favour of taxes, but on this occasion I’d vote for Ross McKitrick’s carbon tax. It’s brilliant.

    Posted by Wand on 2007 06 17 at 07:58 PM • permalink

  10. #7 JorgXMckie: Sounds like good times, indeed. Incidentally, I think the car mentioned in Tim’s link is the same one that surfmaster links to in #6. “Rustbucket”. Too bad.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 17 at 08:00 PM • permalink

  11. Human-powered drag racing.  Is that like shopping cart races?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 17 at 08:12 PM • permalink

  12. Christine got to that Plymouth.

    She was jealous.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 17 at 08:15 PM • permalink

  13. Why not tie carbon taxes to actual levels of warming?

    What ? and link the whole caper to measurable reality.

    What a Silly Billy.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 17 at 09:37 PM • permalink

  14. You too can become a planet saving superhero with fully-certified carbon credits!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 18 at 02:56 AM • permalink

  15. #14 That Paco, he’s a genius!

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 18 at 03:28 AM • permalink

  16. I just ordered up a t shirt for only $53 a month!

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 18 at 03:30 AM • permalink

  17. #16
    They seem to have ignored the tin-foil hat and arse-hat merchandising segments.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 18 at 03:42 AM • permalink

  18. Someone has been slipping something interesting into Helen Clark(e)‘s drinks.  She is also getting rather bellicose with Fiji.  Is Suva in for a strathing run from NZ’s air force?

    Oh, wait.

    Posted by entropy on 2007 06 18 at 07:24 AM • permalink

  19. #18
    Helen hasn’t been racing all that well for a while, she fell at the third jump at Wellington in October last year.

    She wasn’t injured and is back on full feed and light trackwork, but the jockey hasn’t ridden since.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 18 at 11:56 PM • permalink

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