Notice how phrases like this are becoming more frequent these days?

"We have to get serious about producing citizens for the 21st century ... whether you believe in global warming or not," Brown said.

Ben Pile: Going over the top in the ‘climate war’ | spiked

What could have been an interesting film was instead a fiction. It attached fictional arguments to fictional interests to legitimise the politicisation of the debate - exactly what it accused the sceptics of. Rather than concentrating on the arguments that have actually been made, Stewart invented the sceptic’s argument to turn climate science into an arena for an exhausted political argument for ‘change’ that has failed to engage the public.

The real ‘climate war’ is between those who do not believe that our future is determined by the weather and those who think that ‘climate change is the defining challenge of our time’ and define themselves – and everybody else – accordingly. Don’t expect a documentary film about it any time soon.

FPL Group Chief Executive Lew Hay III told investors that pending carbon legislation could within a few years boost the company’s annual earnings by $690 million a year

If today’s rent-seeking by energy and power companies is any guide, should cap and trade become the law of the land, prepare to see lobbying the likes of which we have raely seen, as companies clamor for favored status in the new fixed-carbon-credits world order. It won’t be pretty.