More JunkScience.com tweets from today’s Senate hearing: “25 years after Jim Hansen birthed warmism in Senate hearing, skeptics all but stomped warmism to death in Senate hearing”
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Steve Milloy (JunkScience) on Twitter25 years after Jim Hansen birthed warmism in Senate hearing, skeptics all but stomped warmism to death in Senate hearing.In closing hearing statement, Whitehouse defends warmism by saying NASA is driving a vehicle on Mars.Spencer: Today’s record high for Wash DC was 103 — set in 1887!Spencer: Makes no sense to blame all present warming on CO2.Where are the warmists? Senate hearing a disaster for warmism. Warmist tweeters have vanished.Roy Spencer: Models amplify warming by 2x because of mishandled water vapor.Righteous: Roy Spencer turns tables… asks Sen. Whitehouse to explain model failure.Sen. Sessions & Roy Spencer absolutely burying climate models.Sen. Whitehouse now trying to explain why models failed to predict non-warming of past 15 years.Roy Spencer wrecks Sen. Whitehouse’s attempted climate model ambush. Then warmist witness admits models can’t even replicate past climate.Attempted ridicule: Sen. Whitehouse asks Roy Spencer about scientific basis of creationism vs. evolution. Spencer knocks it out of park.Warmist witness: Can’t look at national averages for extreme weather, gotta look at what works for warmism (right now regional weather).Sen. Whitehouse admits it’s reasonable to debate climate models.Pielke Jr: It will take many decades and even centuries before we could attribute hurricanes to manmade climate change.Spencer: ‘As lead scientist on NASA satellites that monitor sea ice, sea ice is increasing.’Spencer: ‘All skeptics are part of 97% consensus… what the consensus believes is innocuous… sensitivity is where opinions differs’Spencer: Climate system ‘relatively insensitive to CO2.’Roy Spencer: ‘Yes it is unusually warm today… just like it was 1,000 and 6,000 years ago… but those obviously weren’t our fault.’@RogerPielkeJr demolishes extreme weather claims at Senate hearing.Warmist: We’ve added CO2 so fast, the atmospheric temperature hasn’t had time to catch up. So how many years does it need?Dem witness: Without global warming, storm surges apparently wouldn’t be a problem for low-lying areas.@suzyji The hearing is not going well for warmists is it, Suzi?Sen. Wicker hits alarmists witnesses for making CO2 sound “sinister,” like “carbon pollution” and “carbon dumping”Democrat Sen. Hirona abandons argument over cause of extreme weather.Sen. Deb Fischer asks if social cost of carbon is being manipulated so EPA regs pass cost-benefit test. IER economist says yes.Heidi Cullen says increase “mean global temperature” — which occurs nowhere — is …
Australia Kills Carbon Tax, And With it $4 Billion Of Green Spending
http://www.thegwpf.org/australia-kills-carbon-tax-4-billion-green-handouts/
Compensation for industry will be pared back and programs funded by the carbon tax could be cut to help the government find the $4 billion it will cost to shift the fixed carbon price to a floating price a year earlier than scheduled.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is expected to announce the final details on Tuesday, confirmed on Sunday that the carbon price will shift to a floating price on July 1, 2014, enabling the government to distance itself from Julia Gillard’s policy, which has caused Labor enormous political damage.
The Greens slammed the measure as environmentally irresponsible, manufacturers welcomed it as providing much-needed relief, and the coal, gas and minerals sectors condemned it for not going far enough, saying the carbon price should be scrapped altogether.
Before the change, the carbon price was to be fixed at $25.40 in 2014-15, up from $24.15 in 2013-14, before moving to a floating price linked to the European Union scheme on July 1, 2015.
That shift to a floating price will now occur a year earlier. The change from $24.50 to a European price of about $6 to $10 will cost the budget about $4 billion in 2014-15.
Mr Rudd stressed the change would be revenue neutral, the policy goals still achieved and consumers given relief.
“The key thing though is that with this change, it would mean that Australian families have less cost of living pressures and it would also mean strong action still on the environment and climate change,’’ he said.
Treasurer Chris Bowen said the compensation for low and middle-income households would not be reduced, even though it was designed for the higher fixed price.
A lower carbon price also meant lower energy prices. Mr Rudd identified high energy prices last week as the key impediment to productivity growth.
Under the policy change, a dual income couple, for example, with two children aged three and eight, would reduce their annual cost of living by about $420.
But Mr Bowen said industry compensation “will be calibrated to match new arrangements’’.
This would include reducing the value of free permits given to trade-exposed industries. In the May budget, programs funded by the carbon tax were cut to fill the revenue hole created by the lower than expected carbon price in 2015-16 when the link with the EU …
