Are you feeling the heat?

In answer to your question...no. No, I'm not. I would invite Dr. Viner to come on over and stick his dumb head in a non existant snowbank.

Well, here's something of an explanation. Accept or reject as you like. I just thought I'd add something to the mix. 

What carbon taxation?

What carbon taxation??

Well, let's see now...

Example #1 - I used to buy a sixpack of lightbulbs every month or so from my local electrical shop. Price? Just over EUR5 ($7). Then one day they told me they didn't have my regular bulbs as they'd been outlawed. I would have to buy the new, "carbon friendly" bulbs instead. Price? Just over $30 ($41).

Example #2 - I used to use my electric cooker without any problem until one day everything went dark. The fuse had tripped in my hallway. I flipped it back on, but a minute later it went dark again. I was using 3 hotplates to cook. I turned one off to reduce the electricity load, and the power stayed on.
The same thing happened the next day, and the day after that. Even when I used an electrical fan at the same time as my cooker, the power was cut off. I rang the electricity company and explained the problem. They told me I was a "level one" customer, and as such there was a limit on the amount of electricity I was allowed to use at the same time. The idea, they said, was to reduce electrical consumption and reduce CO2 emissions. A law had been passed that I hadn't heard about. I told them that was ridiculous, and that I couldn't get by using only two hotplates to cook (or one when the fan was running). They said they were sorry, but that was the new law. However, they said, I could "upgrade" to "level 2", which would increase my electricity limit. And how do I do that? I asked. By paying a EUR50 fee - and then being charged at a higher rate for the "additional" electricity I used.

A similar carbon tax was introduced in Ireland a few years ago, resulting in an immediate increase in the price of natural gas, petrol, oil and kerosene. A carbon tax is also factored into Ireland's car registration tax (as it also is in other countries).

The UK - which started all this AGW baloney - enacted a "climate change levy" back in 2001.

Carbon taxes are being introduced by stealth in most European countries. There are also plans in the pipeline to introduce a carbon tax on all flights over Europe. Australia and New Zealand have also introduced carbon taxes.

The US has so far resisted carbon taxes, but they are coming. I know that Colorado introduced a carbon tax recently. And there are carbon taxes in force in some Canadian provinces.

The purported idea behind carbon taxes is that they will cause people and companies to use less electricity. But of course this is nonsense. For example, I had no choice but to "upgrade", and pay the fee (as did most people) in order to be able to cook my breakfast or turn on a heater without being plunged into darkness. And companies have to use whatever amount of electricity they need to use in order to stay in business. If a machine in a factory requires X amount of power to make it run, then it can't run if there is less than X amount of power available. So while extra charges will obviously force people to use slightly less electricity, the reduction in the amount of CO2 produced will be miniscule (bearing in mind that humans are only responsible for 3% of the total CO2 in the atmosphere anyway). For example, the Australian carbon tax aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 5%. Since Australia produces 1.5% of the world's man-made CO2 emissions, this means that if Australia achieves this target it will, by the year 2050, have lowered global temperature by 0.00007C - and that's if you believe CO2 is causing the temperature to rise. The figures just don't add up. But billions of euros are being collected in carbon taxes. In short, it's a scam.

BTW, you have yet to answer how it is possible that one harsh winter in the US is totally an argument against the very possibility of global warming, but a non-winter outside the US is not.