Cap-and-Trade, Dog-and-Pony - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

This morning I spoke on a panel on the legislative prospects for cap-and-trade kicked off by EPW chair Barbara Boxer. The California senator cited the death of a young girl in Ohio last year who developed a bacterial infection after swimming in a local body of water. Boxer blamed global warming for the presence of the pathogen — because, well, it's never been this warm before.
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...Yet another offered windy remarks citing Hurricane Katrina as proof that "climate change" is here. Paging the Dimmock judge: You're needed in Washington.

The least troubling remarks on this panel of experts (other than my own) came from the National Resources Defense Council. [Sigh.] So this is what the taxpayers face: A policymaking community thriving on cynical fairy tales, illogic, outright fabrications, and a slobbering love affair with the idea of picking your pockets in order to fund state-mandated wealth transfers to buy off the constituencies necessary to drag this scheme over the finish line.

Most of which points I made — while the august audience emitted the odor of recognition that the public will block this scheme, while being none too pleased about it. I look forward to the day the global-warming industry and their pals in Congress finally bite the bullet and try to force this on you. I have a feeling their delay arises from a shared suspicion that it will end in a way similar to the legislative anecdote with which I began my remarks: the 1993 BTU debacle.

ETS 'must pass Parliament this year' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) executive director Don Henry says both sides of government need a "wake-up call" on climate change and has urged the Senate to "fix" and pass emissions trading laws this year.
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"Nothing less than tens of thousands of Australian lives, hundreds of thousands of jobs and some of our most beautiful places, including the Great Barrier Reef, are at stake," he said.