Dear Hasbeen,

Please accept my sincere apologies for questioning your credibility.

I do not dare divulge my background because people will know who I am and the value of my pseudonym will be lost.

Let's just say that I have several more postgrad degrees than you have undergrad degrees.

Dear Mr Opinion,

That reminds me of the old adage:

Question: Do you know what BS is?

Answer: Yes I think I do.

Question: Well, how about an MS?

Answer: Yes, it's "More of the Same."

Question: What about a PhD?

Answer: That's easy. It's "Piled Higher and Deeper!"

Yes Lexi,

But I would always prefer to have than not to have.

Lexi,

Well at least you have stopped with that Tax is not a tax PhD.

However, if you claim to be so literate, you hide it very well. I never claimed that households or small businesses have the carbon tax levied directly. That the electricity and gas producers can simply pass the tax on to consumers means that the carbon tax is paid indirectly by the households and businesses, and the "only taxing the big polluters" line simply means that the government has s simpler way of levying the tax on everyone.

The carbon tax will not make 2015.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/twenty-year-hiatus-in-rising-temperatures-has-climate-scientists-puzzled/story-e6frg12c-1226609140980

This article is interesting, in that it contains threatens to change the entire climate change debate.

"In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, then climate sensitivity - the way climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels - would be on negative watch but not yet downgraded."

"The global temperature standstill shows that climate models are diverging from observations," says David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. "If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change," he says.

Whitehouse argues that whatever has happened to make temperatures remain constant requires an explanation because the pause in temperature rise has occurred despite a sharp increase in global carbon emissions.

The Economist says the world has added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010, about one-quarter of all the carbon dioxide put there by humans since 1750. This mismatch between rising greenhouse gas emissions and not-rising temperatures is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now, The Economist article says.

Death to the carbon tax!

Viva la revolucion!

Off with her head!

Long live global warming!

Hail Pancho Abbott!