Regulate all the carbon dioxide you want, greenies, it’s your future burgers that are really doing the damage.

Methane’s impact on global temperatures is about a third higher than generally thought because previous estimates have not accounted for its interaction with airborne particles called aerosols, Nasa scientists found.

When this indirect effect of the potent greenhouse gas is included one tonne of methane has about 33 times as much effect on the climate over 100 years as a tonne of carbon dioxide, rather than 25 times as in standard estimates.

Thirty-three times more damage than CO2.

Obviously, breaking the back of the U.S. economy and financially burdening citizens with a Cap & Tax scheme that focuses on carbon dioxide is the sensible way to go at this problem, right?

This is yet another in an ever-expanding body of evidence about just how flawed climate computer modeling is.

The problem is that the climate doomsday types are absolutely feverish about passing burdensome legislation based on these models.

And the models are all they’ve got. The green jobs spiel is a fantasy. The warming is now cooling (how eerily similar to…weather).

However, if one questions that the human input into computer modeling can muck up the end product you’re labeled an idiot who doesn’t believe in science.

Why not wait until the modeling capabilities get better? Why not realize that human beings are actually a part of the environment and stop trying to blame them for all of its ills? Why not a comprehensive focus on the alleged causes of warming (like methane)?

Because the political power grab opportunity may pass with time.

And that’s what this is really about.

(h/t: Ace of Spades HQ)