Webposted: Lubos Motl dissects Revkin's motivations - Calls a Revkin a 'Merry Coward'

If I return to [Andy Revkin], I can easily imagine him in the first months or years after this global warming virago collapses - because I can map him to effectively similar people in Czechoslovakia transitioning from communism to freedom. He will surely be painting himself as one of those more courageous people who was oh so badly suppressed by the evil alarmist aparatchiks in the New York Times - but he was still boldly writing almost the right stuff on his Dot Earth blog. And of course, people will be buying it because many of them have been, let's admit, even less courageous than Andrew Revkin. ;-) Most people simply see the alarmist whackos infiltrating all important places in the society, including Exxon, so they will surely respect the party line, won't they?

The American Spectator : Has Obama Killed Carbon Cap and Trade?

President Obama has driven a stake in the heart of his carbon cap-and-trade program. By transforming it from a relatively cost-effective environmental program into a cash cow to finance his ambitious health and social welfare agenda, he has encumbered it with very expensive baggage. Blue Dog Democrats and conservation-minded Republicans will gag on its cost to an economy now racked by recession.

Cap and Horse Trade: Obama’s Uphill Battle for Climate Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Passing cap-and-trade legislation was always going to be an uphill battle, made only tougher by the continuing deterioration of the economy. But the further the climate bill moves from an openly debated environmental program toward a social agenda implemented by fiat, the tougher it’s going to get.