Comments on: The Call-Your-Bluff Tax http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_callyourblu.html Dispatches from a Small Business Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: polara http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_callyourblu.html/comment-page-1#comment-5821 polara Wed, 14 May 2008 20:00:11 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/06/the_callyourblu.html #comment-5821 <p>clearly you don't know how to read charts. you don't say, "oh gee, look at that one spike that was higher than the temperature is today!" you look at the overall trend--follow the line from left to right. maybe that's the difference between climate skeptics and everyone else--everyone else paid attention in statistics class.</p> <p>and as for chart #3, there was also an error in the sat temperature readings that NOAA was getting. once they corrected it they realized that the ground readings matched the sat readings and they had corroboration. but your friends at junk science won't tell you that. </p> clearly you don’t know how to read charts. you don’t say, “oh gee, look at that one spike that was higher than the temperature is today!” you look at the overall trend–follow the line from left to right. maybe that’s the difference between climate skeptics and everyone else–everyone else paid attention in statistics class.

and as for chart #3, there was also an error in the sat temperature readings that NOAA was getting. once they corrected it they realized that the ground readings matched the sat readings and they had corroboration. but your friends at junk science won’t tell you that.

]]> By: Rob http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_callyourblu.html/comment-page-1#comment-5820 Rob Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:03:13 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/06/the_callyourblu.html #comment-5820 <p>This story makes gov't look greedy and hypocritical at the same time:</p> <p>http://www.charlotte.com/112/story/153260.html</p> <p>Greedy because they love making tax dollars off gas sales.</p> <p>Hypocritical in two ways: Gas/Oil producers are held up as evil, but using force to collect<br /> tax on alternative and privately produced fuel is not evil? If the state was really concerned<br /> about the environment, then wouldn't behavior like this be rewarded?</p> This story makes gov’t look greedy and hypocritical at the same time:

http://www.charlotte.com/112/story/153260.html

Greedy because they love making tax dollars off gas sales.

Hypocritical in two ways: Gas/Oil producers are held up as evil, but using force to collect
tax on alternative and privately produced fuel is not evil? If the state was really concerned
about the environment, then wouldn’t behavior like this be rewarded?

]]> By: Bob Smith http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/06/the_callyourblu.html/comment-page-1#comment-5819 Bob Smith Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:40:20 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/06/the_callyourblu.html #comment-5819 <p>Is the "temperature anomaly" independent of the actual temperature? You don't want a tax that's a one way ratchet, such that a period of cooling resets the low temperature at which warming starts to trigger the tax.</p> Is the “temperature anomaly” independent of the actual temperature? You don’t want a tax that’s a one way ratchet, such that a period of cooling resets the low temperature at which warming starts to trigger the tax.

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