Trump Proposes National Carbon Tax To Fund US-Mexico Wall

More Of The Usual Hype About Arctic Ice
 

Trump Proposes National Carbon Tax To Fund US-Mexico Wall  - A nationwide carbon tax could raise enough revenues to fund the construction of a wall between the US and Mexico, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump announced Friday morning in a surprise policy U-turn on the climate change issue. Previously claiming that he was “not a big believer” in man-made global warming, Trump has now embraced a coordinated national approach to reducing US greenhouse gas emissions in a move that he said will also help stop illegal immigration. “Really, it’s a no-brainer. We make the left-wing tree-huggers happy by introducing a price on carbon, and we make my right-wing supporters happy by closing the funding gap for my wall,” he said in a statement. --Carbon Pulse, 1 April 2016

NSIDC has provisionally announced that Arctic sea ice extent has recorded the lowest maximum in the satellite record. This has naturally set the media off ringing alarm bells, like this silly one from Climate Home, “Arctic sea ice fell to its lowest winter extent in recorded history.” The reality is much more boring. Far from collapsing, Arctic sea ice area has been remarkably stable in the last decade. And with multi year ice continuing to recover from 2008 lows, ice volume has also been growing in the last few years. --Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 30 March 2016

A new study conducted by scientists at Lakehead University in Canada should help alleviate any concerns we might have that polar bears are nearing extinction. The authors write, “[W]e suggest that the current status of Canadian polar bear subpopulations in 2013 was 12 stable/increasing and one declining (Kane Basin). We do not find support for the perspective that polar bears within or shared with Canada are currently in any sort of climate crisis. We show that much of the scientific evidence indicating that some polar bear subpopulations are declining due to climate change-mediated sea ice reductions is likely flawed by poor mark–recapture (M-R) sampling and that the complex analysis models employed to overcome these capture issues apparently fail to provide accurate estimates of the demographic parameters used to determine subpopulation status.” --Jordan Candler , Patriot Post, 28 March 2016

A California lawmaker wants to change a law to make it easier for state prosecutors to go after companies skeptical of global warming. The proposed bill would punish skeptical companies for “many years of public deception” with regards to global warming science. “I want to give law enforcement the tools they need to hold people accountable for their actions if that’s where the evidence takes them,” Democratic state Sen. Ben Allen, who proposed legislation targeting skeptics, recently told InsideClimate News. Allen’s proposed legislation would extend the statute of limitations under California’s Unfair Competition Law from four to 30 years specifically for “behavior related to scientific evidence of climate change,” according to a summary of the bill. --Michael Bastasch, The Daily Caller, 31 March 2016

This is your brain on government funding (pace Mark Steyn). The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) gave $18k to a theatre group to put on a play called “Kill the Deniers”. Now, lucky us, we can read the e-book. Because the climate debate really needs more guns, hostages, brute force, and threats right? Well, it does if you don’t have any evidence. “Kill the Deniers” — All the wit and wisdom of government funded “arts”. Can’t persuade the voters? Shoot their representatives. --Jo Nova, 1 April 2016

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