George W. speaks in Calgary - Featured Canada - Macleans.ca

Though he acknowledged that “global warming,” as he put it, “could” pose a major threat to the planet, Bush ridiculed the notion of the U.S. leaving aside Canada’s oil and gas resources. “I want to thank Canada for being a reliable source of energy,” he said. Try having Venezuela as our major source, he suggested, a barb directed at Hugo Chávez–”and see how that goes.”

The Back Forty » Will Cap and Trade Harm Rural States?

In the accompanying map, the heaviest producers of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main culprit in global warming, are colored dark blue. The lowest producers are light blue. As the map shows, rural states produce more carbon than urban states do. Obama wants to set limits on CO2 emissions for each producer, and then let those who emit less than their limit sell their surplus quota to those who emit more. This could, some say, mean draining money from rural states and enriching those on the coast, where the heaviest urban populations are.

The Hill’s Pundits Blog » Shorting Al Gore; Going Long on Sarah Palin and Gen. Petraeus

Al Gore’s chronic insistence that the global science community universally supports his position on global warming, “for goodness’ sake,” is less than encouraging to anyone who has ever been around academia. Universities always support and agree on everything, from Derrida to Gore. Then they get bored and a new generation flips it.