Permits Permits, Who Gets the Permits — MasterResource

If Team Obama hasn’t thought through even this first issue, the allocation of carbon permits well enough to see obvious pitfalls, it’s clear that they can’t have even begun thinking through the kind of mischief that will ensue when they create new carbon-backed securities, aka emission allowances.

Physicist counters climate-change models

'The global warming hypothesis is dead, scientifically'

Ed Berry is making some noise about climate change, and he's singing a different tune than former Vice President Al Gore and his "Inconvenient Truth."

Berry, 73, an accomplished atmospheric physicist who recently moved to the Flathead Valley from Sacramento, Calif., was among about 700 scientists who attended the International Conference on Climate Change in New York City March 7-10.

The Coming Green Burden - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Like Obama, Granholm has ordered a fundamental restructuring of Michigan’s energy infrastructure, putting all new state coal plants on hold and demanding a 45 percent cut in coal generation in 20 years . . . allegedly to be filled by government-mandated wind power.

While promoting the climate scam, Obama uses the North Dakota floods

The president mentioned the flooding during his answer to Cole’s question about North Dakotans’ concerns about how a “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas reduction policy could hurt the state’s coal and power-generating industries.

He said, “I actually think the science around climate change is real. It is potentially devastating. The flooding in North Dakota that could result if you start seeing severely changing weather. Which is going on. I can’t ascribe that in particular to climate change. If you look at the flooding that’s going on right now in North Dakota, and you say to yourself, ‘If you see an increase of 2 degrees, what does that do, in terms of the situation there,’ that indicates the degree to which we have to take this seriously.”

3/14/09: Major Flooding Expected In North Dakota This Spring

Tuesday's blizzard and above-average snowfall over the winter has set the stage for the flooding.