HOW TO SELL LOOMING DEBACLE: IF COPENHAGEN FAILS, IT WILL BE A GREEN SUCCESS

The big challenge for Copenhagen will be to find a way to allow negotiations to stretch beyond the unrealistic 2009 deadline while still keeping momentum. America's slowness in getting serious about global warming should be welcome because it is a contrast to its rushed behavior in negotiating the Kyoto treaty. At Kyoto, Bill Clinton's administration promised deep cuts in emissions without any plan for selling them at home, which is why the Bush administration could so easily abandon the treaty. Repeating that mistake would be a lot worse than waiting a bit for America to craft real leadership. If that's why [if] Copenhagen falls short of the mark, then that's good news—real greenery, rather than fakery. [Via Benny Peiser]

A global warming 'scam'? - Bennington Banner

"This is a big victory for clean air," Congressman Welch said of the Obama action. He should — and probably does — know better that EPA regulation of carbon dioxide emissions would have nothing whatever to do with cleaning up air pollution.

It would have everything to do with strangling the reeling U.S. economy with complex and costly regulations, and bestowing a political victory upon bad science, big government, partisan politics, and unscrupulous enviro groups and their political allies.

PIERS AKERMAN: A Green folly - The Geelong Advertiser

Green politics are incendiary. As a member of a volunteer rural fire brigade over the past 15 years, there is one obvious and critical lesson that needs to be drummed into those who want to see a safer Australian environment _ fire management must be undertaken as a preventative measure, not as a last resort.