Can Washington make a carbon [swindle] cap fit? | Green Tech - CNET News

These developments make it more likely than previous years that rules to put a price on emitting carbon dioxide in the U.S. will be put in place. If they take hold, it would be a turning point for the U.S. economy, creating the financial foundation for sustainable and green technologies, said William Bumpers, the chair of the climate change practice at law firm Baker Botts.

"If enacted and implemented, 20 years from now we'll look down the road and see this is as the most important piece of legislation in the history of the country," said Bumpers. "It has truly transformational potential."
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"We can keep the costs to households to pennies a day," said panelist Fred Krupp, the president of Environmental Defense Fund. "We can limit the costs to very manageable levels if we do it right. I think the equitable thing to do is to have a transition."

Letters - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO

Government-funded science: Timberlake claims a false "crisis" is being used to generate research money. The singular relevant fact is that human induced-global warming is real, and no research would be published if it had not already met publication standards. I also suggest Timberlake read an article appearing in The Gazette on April 15. page A10 ("Global warming can still be negated, report says") showing there is still time to turn back the worst effects with sufficient carbon cuts.
Isn't that worth paying a little bit more in tax, to be able to survive the runaway greenhouse effect?
Phil Stahl
Colorado Springs

New chameleon species named after carbon conservation pioneer

A newly discovered species of chameleon from Tanzania has been named after Dorjee Sun, CEO of Carbon Conservation, an outfit which seeks to make rainforest conservation profitable through a carbon market mechanism known as REDD for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation.

Fox Forces Climate Crap on "24" (Rush: "that dunce Chloe")

RUSH: I urged all of you to watch "24" yesterday when we ended the show. I said, "Watch '24.' It's great tonight," and so you watched it, and I've gotten a lot of e-mails 'cause when the show was over, they had that dunce Chloe read some PSA about how she wants everybody to join Jack Bauer to save the world from global warming. I had all these people writing me, "I'm not watching that show again. How dare you tell us to watch that show again? First they had that president do it, and now they're telling everybody to join them." Let me explain to you why this happens. This is not the people at "24" deciding to do this on their own. That ran after the show. It was not part of the show. What I want you people to understand is that television networks, including Fox -- for a host of reasons, like a lot of American business, like all of General Electric -- they're all caught up in this whole notion of global warming.

They think they are gaining customers. They think they are doing good citizenship. So what happens is all of the Fox shows have been ordered by the Fox studio to engage in a more green experience when producing the show, a smaller carbon footprint when producing the show to put these messages on from members of the cast at the end of the show. And of course it's not hard to find cast members that actually believe the stuff. Believe me, there are plenty of cast members at "24" who don't believe this garbage, but there are a few of them that do and they're eager to go out and do this, but this is not the producers of "24"'s idea. This is the Fox network. It's like all the networks and a lot of businesses do it. How many business do you see advertising their product on the basis of "green" this, "green" that?