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President Obama’s budget has a cap and trade proposal in it that would raise considerable revenue for the government. Such policies are often called taxes. I am on record supporting a carbon tax. However, I do wonder if the Administration has committed a serious tactical error in its proposed plan.

1. By directly linking the cap and trade program to wealth redistribution the Obama Administration has opened the door for some very strong political opposition, with nothing to do with carbon. They have enlarged the scope of conflict and this cannot help in the political battle over carbon policy...

A response to "Profiling the Global Warming Skeptics" by James M Taylor, Senior Fellow, Heartland Institute

As an organizer of the conference, I have had so many impeccably credentialed scientists ask to speak that I have had to beat them off with a stick. Of the more than 100 speakers at last year's conference, we have been able to invite less than half of them back because we have had so many inquiries from scientists who we could not fit on last year's agenda. Still other highly credentialed scientists are waiting in the wings for 2010 because we haven't been able to fit them into the 2008 or 2009 program. And even then, we will only be able to invite a minority of them because there are way too many scientists to fit on the agenda.

Moreover, these are some of the most brilliant minds in science speaking out against the so-called global warming crisis. Among the speakers at next week's conference are scientists from Harvard, MIT, NASA, NOAA, etc. etc.

‘Not on Your Life, My Hindu Friend!’ - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Today, one of those companies, Duke Energy, has come out swearing that — translated — maybe global warming isn't such a great threat as previously insisted, now that the feds are going to make them pay for their ration coupons.