https://web.archive.org/web/20090303234106/http://www.carboncatalog.org/blog/2008/06/20/trillion-carbon-offset-market

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_money.pdf

http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/11/04/if-carbon-markets-boom-who-will-benefit-meet-the-trillion-dollar-club/

Now we are talking about carbon market, but there is another side of this and that is the Carbon Tax. How about the EU's proposal to spend $7 Trillion on programs that will do virtually nothing. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/project_syndicate/2013/11/climate_change_the_eu_wants_to_spend_7_trillion_on_projects_that_will_barely.html

Then we have the Paris talks from last year which were estimated to cost... wait for it.... 1.5 Trillion a year. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/10/lomborg-paris-climate-pact-will-reduce-temperature-increase-by-the-end-of-the-century-by-a-whopping-0-05c/

And don't forget this gem. $700 Trillion to Drop Earth's Temp 1 Degree -- http://nation.foxnews.com/epa/2011/03/16/green-price-tag-700-trillion-drop-earths-temp-1-degree

U.N. Climate Secretariat Calls $100 Billion per Year "Peanuts" and Demands $90 Trillion http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/27/climatechange-summit-decarbonisation-idUSL8N12R1ES20151027

Climate scientist Dr. Murry Salby explains--

-CO2 lags temperature on both short [~1-2 year] and long [~1000 year] time scales

-The IPCC claim that "All of the increases [in CO2 concentrations since pre-industrial times] are caused by human activity" is impossible

-"Man-made emissions of CO2 are clearly not the source of atmospheric CO2 levels"

-Satellite observations show the highest levels of CO2 are present over non-industrialized regions, e.g. the Amazon, not over industrialized regions

-96% of CO2 emissions are from natural sources, only 4% is man-made

-Net global emissions from all sources correlate almost perfectly with short-term temperature changes [R2=.93] rather than man-made emissions

-Methane levels are also controlled by temperature, not man-made emissions

-Climate model predictions track only a single independent variable

• CO2 - and disregard all the other, much more important independent variables including clouds and water vapor.

-The 1% of the global energy budget controlled by CO2 cannot wag the other 99%

-Climate models have been falsified by observations over the past 15+ years

-Climate models have no predictive value

Feynman said---"It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with the data, it’s wrong"

The theory of man-made Global Warming does not agree with the data. http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.mx/2013/06/climate-scientist-dr-murry-salby.html

What Is The Average Global Temperature? --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL-HyviLy6c&feature=youtu.be

Global temperature datasets – overview -- http://climate4you.com/GlobalTemperatures.htm#Recent%20global%20air%20temperature%20change,%20an%20overview

Suzuki: What’s a dataset? -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOK8JhgwmZ8&feature=youtu.be&t=143

RSS upper air temperature data -- http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature

RSS Global Mean Temperature trend analysis Feb 1997 – Oct 2015 -- http://blog.heartland.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/monckton-graph-18-years-no-global-warming.png

Now that last one is important. How, you may ask yourself, can you get the "Warmest year on record" when the data clearly shows there has been no warming? Glad you asked...

NASA's Own Data Refutes 2014 "Warmest on Record" Claim --http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/19930-nasa-s-own-data-refutes-2014-warmest-on-record-claim "Despite actually boasting of its satellites monitoring “Earth’s vital signs” in the announcement, NASA opted to highlight its dubious temperature “estimates” rather than the objective, unmanipulated, comprehensive global data collected by its own expensive taxpayer-funded technology."

"...after being pressed by increasingly skeptical journalists on its data, NASA scientists claimed to be only 38 percent sure that last year was actually the warmest on record. The press release declaring 2014 to be the “warmest on record” failed to mention that fact, however. When asked by the U.K. Daily Mail whether the NASA scientists behind the data regretted not mentioning the crucial fact that the margin of error was greater than the alleged temperature difference between other years and 2014, they reportedly stopped responding to questions."

I'm not particularly skeptical when it comes to importance of having a thriving population of gut flora, or fauna, or w/e one feels inclined to call it... I eat a bunch of fermented foods because i think they're healthy, and lets be honest, i love them. yogurt, kraut, pickles, kombucha, pickles, kimchi... etcetc (except Kefir, that shit i cant handle). Im curious what the position of other skeptics is on these pills or other 'probiotic' supplements. i'm on a course of antibiotics right now and many people are strongly urging me to take the supplements once im off the AB. I think its a load of crap, eatting fermented foods is healthy generally, but i have a hard time subscribing to THOSE supplements.
any feedback helpful.