Leaving aside the injustice of such a tax existing at all, I'll take up Mr Tierney's offer, but with a couple of slight modifications. Since Climategate, the Warmenist position is back to square one. Where I would contend that what we are seeing is natural variation until proven otherwise, the worshipers of Blessed Gaia claim something very specific: That computer models have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that
- The Earth is undergoing an unprecedented episode of heating
- That this is due entirely to increases in manmade carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
- That if this heating is left unchecked, it will result in catastrophic changes in the climate
- That the only way to do prevent this, with no possible alternatives, is to curtail manmade carbon dioxide emissions through a very specific political programme of global control, artificial shortages, punitive taxes, wealth redistribution, and an overwhelmingly powerful bureaucracy answerable only to an unelected elite
- And that the only authority to question this is through peer reviewed science controlled by warmenist advocates who decide what is peer reviewed.
- If the rise in temperature matches the accepted global warming model (there isn't one, by the way), then the carbon tax for that year will be paid in full.
- If the temperature does not change, then the tax will be refunded.
- If the temperature drops, the tax will be refunded ten fold.
- If the temperature rises, but not according to what the model predicts (whether falling short or exceeding it), then the tax will be refunded one hundred fold.
- All refunds will come solely from funds from past carbon tax collections. No other sources are allowed, nor can collected funds be spent for a period of ten years. If the refunded amounts ever exceeds those collected, the tax will be repealed.
Update: What causes climate scepticism? According to Richard Black: Men.
Update: Meanwhile, that red-blooded hero George Monbiot finds his mind crushed.
Update: From Russia with fraud.
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