Foolish for anyone to believe that a carbon tax will be a "market solution" that will humbly keep allocation decisions out of the hands of political officials
The government data, we believe, are artificial constructs designed by the Obama Administration to penalize fossil fuels and allow it to achieve by executive mandate what it cannot via Congress, such as a carbon tax.
So 2014 was weather as usual. The "extreme" moniker likely comes from the constituency that is desperately trying to produce causation from human burning of hydrocarbons
If climate alarmists succeed in turning back the clock, food and energy will again become reserved for the rich and powerful, and billions of poor people will die of starvation or exposure