Obama's Fake Punt: Making Clean Energy 'Profitable' Will Mean Passing Cap-and-Trade - Environmental Capital - WSJ

As the president indicated, there are all kinds of details left to be worked out regarding any cap-and-trade plan. But to judge from what he said last night, it doesn’t appear that climate policy will be severed from the administration’s broader plans to reshape the nation’s energy mix.

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My glass was half empty, but then the remaining liquid evaporated due to global warming which will inevitably kill us all

Reuters AlertNet - Global warming 37 pct to blame for droughts, claims scientist

Peter Baines of Melbourne University in Australia analysed global rainfall observations, sea surface temperature data as well as a reconstruction of how the atmosphere has behaved over the past 50 years to reveal rainfall winners and losers.

What he found was an underlying trend where rainfall over the past 15 years or so has been steadily decreasing, with global warming 37 percent responsible for the drop.

"The 37 percent is probably going to increase if global warming continues," Baines told Reuters from Perth in Western Australia, where he presented his findings at a major climate change conference.
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Sea surface temperatures have been rising as the atmosphere warms.