The Pool Bar: Global swindle watch

So, let me get this straight. While the rest of the world wants us to cut our carbon emissions to levels roughly equivalent to those of a hunter-gatherer society, Brazil says that in around 8 or 9 years they'll get around to slowing the destruction of the "lungs of the planet". And yet we're the bad guys and they're the good guys. Alrighty, then.
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Let's also not forget that a growing body of evidence indicates that the anthropogenic global warming/climate change theory is a crock of shit. [Via Skeptics Global Warming]

Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy » The Severe Economic Costs of Cap-and-Trade in Oregon

Greenhouse gas reduction strategies should strike a balance between economic costs of regulation and the benefits of mitigating costs that future climate change could impose. Unfortunately, the projections of future climate change are highly uncertain, and thus the estimated costs or benefits of not acting are highly suspect. Implementing a cap-and-trade program in Oregon would create economic burdens and provide little or no environmental benefit.
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The study predicts that Oregon’s economic growth to 2020 would be cut approximately in half...