Model Prisoners - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Now we read the claim that “global warming” litigants should not need to comply with the oh-so-inconvenient necessity of establishing “causation,” but should be able to cash in simply because someone has written a computer model saying that some company’s alleged contribution to global warming is what caused their weather damage.

The 'Green Jobs' Myth - WSJ.com

The United Nations is huddling in Poznan, Poland, this week to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, but the real news is that part of the global "consensus" on climate change seems to be unraveling. To wit, the myth of "green jobs."

In Brussels last week, some 11,000 metal workers clogged the EU quarter to protest global-warming policies. They worry that their industry could be harmed and their jobs forced overseas; some of them carried coffins as props. Most of the marching workers were from Germany, where auto makers are also still fuming over new emissions standards. Audi and BMW and other carbon-using industries have argued both for shallower emissions cuts and a longer phase-in period.
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We hope the incoming Obama economics team is paying attention to the worker and industry backlash in Europe. Mr. Obama is still embracing the line from Greenpeace and the Environmental Defense Fund that cap and trade can generate five million "green jobs." If you throw enough tax subsidies at something, you're bound to get some new jobs. But if the money for those subsidies comes from higher energy taxes -- and a cap and trade regime would amount to as much $1.2 trillion of new taxes -- millions of jobs in carbon-using industry are also going to be lost.

The Europeans once believed the "green jobs" myth too. Now, as blue-collar workers take to the streets, they have learned that climate-change legislation means green unemployment.

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Political Potato: Climate Negotiators in Poland Fail to Agree on Clean Coal

Among the many other things climate negotiators are failing to achieve in their two-week confab in Poland is a way to bring clean coal closer to reality.

Heliogenic Climate Change: What an incredible scam -- Obama take note

[IHT] Seb Walhain, the global head of environmental markets at Fortis, said that RWE earned up to €5 billion from 2005 to 2007 from the EU system. Felix Matthes at the Institute for Applied Ecology, a German environmental research group, estimated that RWE benefited from windfall profits of €2.2 billion to €3.3 billion annually in 2005 and 2006. ...

But emissions have risen steadily at the German operations of RWE since the trading system began.