Morning Bell: Obama’s Undemocratic Plan to Tax Everything You Do and Send the Money to Kuwaiti Millionaires » The Foundry

What makes California’s cap-and-trade plan so scary is that voters never had, and never will have, an opportunity to debate and vote on its implementation. The plan is being implemented entirely through the administrative process. None of the members of California board have ever had to, or ever will, face the voters. They are appointed by the governor.

Could a similar thing happen on the federal level? Yes. Obama has already signaled he will pursue that route...

Heliogenic Climate Change: Greenpeace believers burn CO2 in effigy, create more CO2

They probably don't even realize that what's coming out of the cooling towers is condensed water vapor, not CO2...

Greenwash: Are carbon offsetters taking us for a ride? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

But in recent months, there has been a shake-down in the carbon offsetting business. The start-ups are being taken over. The enthusiasts in cardigans and riding bicycles are giving way to money men in sharp suits driving limos. A few months ago my own favourite, ClimateCare, got gobbled up by Wall Street investment bank JPMorgan. Call me prejudiced, but suddenly I don't want to give them the benefit of the doubt any more.

Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Obama Transition Looks at Far-Out Idea

...the idea of turning solar power generated by orbiting satellites into electricity that can be used on the ground recently showed up on the Obama transition Web site, www.change.gov.