Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Will the Budget Battle Become a Climate Battle? | OurFuture.org
But it's possible that the President's decision to include a carbon cap policy -- averting a climate crisis in part by fully charging polluters for polluting public sky -- will dominate the budget debate.

Upon the budget's release, conservatives sought to make President's Obama "cap-and-trade" policy (in which a limited number of pollution permits are sold to companies, and cleaner companies can sell permits to dirtier ones, allowing flexibility without blowing the caps) the main target.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Pelosi 2007: Hey, I’m happy to fly commercial
Make sure you read down to the end to see what she wanted just to avoid an extra 90 minutes of driving time.
Global warming myth laid bare | CO2sceptics
How people have been deceived to think that CO2 is a poisonous toxic gas is truly astonishing.

Michael Dorgan
Douglas, co Cork
The warming show the ABC should have made | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
It would point out that the situation was difficult before the global economic tsunami swept in; now it is much, much worse. There is an air of panic in government over this issue. Witness the fiasco of the House of Representatives inquiry that wasn’t. Why has Rudd moved Greg Combet in behind Wong?

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