Why we are going quietly nuts | Gristmill

If we accept the worst, or precautionary assessment, then U.S. environmentalists have perhaps a year to avert cataclysm, and nothing we are doing now will work.

GE Will Benefit From The Climate Exchange

...there's a nexus between its green ambitions and its finance unit in the form of a new venture called Greenhouse Gas Services, which will facilitate the trade of carbon tax credits.

Thus as Tim Carney* notes, GE has been lobbying heavily for a cap-and-trade system, rather than a straight tax system which wouldn't require a market. And of course they got their wish...

Maryland: Low-temperature record shattered in Salisbury

It also set a record for coldest March day ever recorded in Salisbury.