bad news for polluters and climate deniers

The magazine "Economist", a business man's staple, picked up the story that the internet has boasted since March.  A study at Berkley funded by the Koch brothers, designed to discredit the data used to model global warming backfired, even with their two Koch hand picked & paid climate deniers directing the study it was determined temperature data used is neither faulty nor manipulated, and here's the full monty balls out bummer for the Koch's, the study concludes the climate is warming, and faster than models have predicted.  Al Gore's harangues have been wrong like the Reichwing said, except it's worse than he said.  Poor David, poor Charles.  Poor earth.

Last week Australia, a former hold out in everything that smelled of science, passed a law creating a pollution tax on fuels and chemicals, a style of cap and trade.   This about face came after a year of devastating storms, and heat.  These guys were our next in line, the number 2 of denialism, what the hell, did they resume teaching science down under?

Last month the EU court gave preliminary OK for a pollution tax on air traffic.  The US has screamed bloody hell over it, claiming it discriminated our carriers, the court rightly said, and I quote from court records, "yer full a shit, every flight will pay, stop acting like only you will you big cry baby".  This will add a few dollars to a trip to Paris, more if your on an older plane that burns more fuel.

California begins cap and trade on pollution today.