Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Can anyone explain this Toles cartoon to me?

He would appear to be saying that U.S. climate policy is rejecting the obvious life preserver of the EPA and waiting for something bigger — a cap-and-trade bill?

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Obama says his energy plan and cap-and-trade “will be authorized” even if it’s not in the budget “and I will sign it” — Washington Post confused

As an aside, people don’t seem to get that the middle-class tax cut is entirely paid for by the cap, by the auctioning of CO2 [scam] permits. So that is another reason it’s good that cap-and- trade is not in the budget: It means that the tax cut will have to be clearly tied to the cap from both a legislative and messaging perspective — as it should be

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Is This Science? EPA’s Plan To Regulate CO2 Claiming It Endangers The Public’s Health and Welfare

The EPA’s plan “to regulate warming” is a circumvention of science in order to promote a political agenda. Serious negative environmental, economic and social effects are going to occur as a result of the inappropriately narrow and ineffective EPA focus on greenhouse gas emissions as the currency for a wide range of climate effects.

Bad Scientist of the Week": Andrew Weaver « The Air Vent

The insanity of this dude is really apparent. He has made absolutely no consideration of unilateral disarmament of the largest and freest economies. He has no concern for the inability to produce cheap food, no concern of giving the unwilling (and apparently smarter) communist government of China a huge competitive advantage. No reasonableness about how really ‘not’ bad a degree or two would be. Only the elimination of the single thing which has lifted the globe from poverty and strife — energy!