Real Climate Science

FURTHER light has been shed on how far apart the federal climate change minister is with his own department over critical advice provided to an Australian steelmaker.

Figures seen by BusinessDaily support claims that Bluescope Steel made after Greg Combet outlined the government’s climate change policy on Wednesday.

In his speech, Mr Combet said that a tonne of steel would be taxed at $2.60 based on a carbon price of $20 a tonne.

Yesterday, BusinessDaily was shown the figures the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency gave to Bluescope late last month.

Those numbers confirm that the tax would be equal to $8.23 a tonne using a carbon price of $26.10 a tonne — $6.10 above the figure Mr Combet projected in his speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Bluescope calculates that at $8.23 a tonne it will have to pay the government more than $38 million next year.

In the first half of this year Bluescope racked up a $55 million loss.

Company officials also say that Mr Combet failed to explain in his speech that the 94.5 per cent of emissions assistance to be made available to steelmakers under the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will apply only at the hot rolled stage of steel production.

Downstream products remain exempt from assistance under the government’s plans.

As a result Bluescope estimates that it will have 1,485,947 tonnes of unshielded emissions next financial year, which could cost the company as much as $38.78 million

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/

Hansen was spewing the identical nonsense, but the rest of the team wasn’t on board yet.

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Rien ne change jamais.

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They keep theorizing that sea level rise must be accelerating, even though it isn’t.

http://www.agu.org/journals/ABS/2009/2009GL040222.shtml

“I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.”

– Albert Einstein

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http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/

a  government  contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.   The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal employment,  project  allocations and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

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Exactly what is going on in the climate science world now. A bunch of know-nothings simultaneously driving and riding the gravy train. There is absolutely no motivation to think, do science, or get off. Just keep the money coming and never bite the hand that feeds it.

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/062/mwr-062-06-0212.pdf

1934 used to be the hottest year – before USHCN and GISS worked their magic.

The blink comparator above compares GISS March, 2011 anomalies with NCDC March, 2011 anomalies. It is abundantly clear that GISS has a serious problem north of 40N.

Besides the US problem, GISS has heated Canada, much of Alaska, Greenland, and almost the entire Arctic ocean. Eastern Alaska was 2 to 4 C below normal, and GISS made it hot. Same story for much of Canada. We know from satellite data that most of Greenland was far below normal in March, yet GISS made most of the island above normal.

By this date last year, Hudson Bay ice was already melting. This year, the area is forecast to be locked in a deep freeze for at least two more weeks. Looks like the Polar Bears will have plenty of ice for their daiquiris.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/recent365.anom.region.13.html

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp2.html