The cap and tax menu « Dirty Democrats

This is just bad policy and worse economics. It is a fraud on the tax payers. These political con artist know that if they tried a direct tax on voters they would be thrown out of office so they concoct a way to make business collect the tax for them with a bogus promise to refund it to a select few Democrat constituencies. This is one of the most outrageous scams in the history of the world to help Democrats enact their control freak agenda. That these businesses went along with just proves how much company Enron had in pushing this scam.”

More from alarmist Bryan Walsh: In Search of the Climate's Tipping Point - TIME

When asked to quantify the impact of climate change, scientists come up with a lot of interesting answers, no two of them quite the same. For the lay person, then, perhaps the simplest way to understand it is to imagine a distant asteroid, somewhere out in space, on a collision course with Earth. It's not clear when or where the asteroid will hit, or exactly how severe the consequences will be. But it is clear that when it happens, the consequences will be far worse — and last far longer — than any natural disaster humanity has ever known.

That is the threat to the planet that many scientists can agree is posed by climate change.

Funny numbers from Palm Desert, California « Climate Sanity

There is something funny about these numbers. This is just one more gear in the elaborate political/economic/eco-religious Rube Goldberg machine that delivers energy to consumers in California.

Despite popular opinion and calls to action, the Maldives are not being overrun by sea level rise « Watts Up With That?

When somebody mentions “Maldives”, the image above of a tropical paradise often springs to mind. Andy Revkin wrote a story recently about the Maldives on his NYT Dot Earth blog that provoked quite an email exchange that I was privy to today. Here are some highlights...