EurActiv.com - Obama pushes for domestic climate change [scam] act

US President Barack Obama's top climate negotiator warned on Wednesday (22 April) that international efforts to tackle global warming are doomed unless the United States enacts laws to limit greenhouse-gas emissions.
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"There will be no new global deal if the United States is not part of it and we won't be part of it unless we are on track in enacting our own domestic plan," Todd Stern told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"Unless we stand and deliver by enacting strong, mandatory nationwide climate and energy legislation, the effort to negotiate a new international agreement will come up short," Stern said.

EurActiv.com - Carbon trading ‘stifling EU energy-savings potential’ | EU - European Information on Energy Efficiency

The EU's emissions trading scheme has so far failed to deliver any reductions in CO2 emissions while at the same time strangling energy-efficiency investment in the electricity sector, according to a former European Commission official.

Emissions trading scheme a job killer, say steel chiefs | The Australian

AUSTRALIA'S two big steelmakers have presented a united front against the Rudd government's emissions trading scheme, warning hundreds of jobs would be lost under the proposed plan, and that the Port Kembla steelworks would struggle to maintain its world-class status.

JURIST - Hotline: EPA greenhouse gas finding allows Congress to duck legislative responsibility

Patrick J. Michaels [Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute; Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia]: "When the US Environmental Protection Agency determined that carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases "endanger public health and welfare," they virtually guaranteed that the Executive Branch will be responsible for promulgating and enforcing mandatory reductions in the use of fossil fuels, without the advice and consent of Congress.

When EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced the finding, she also said that the Obama Administration preferred that greenhouse-gas emissions be regulated by Congress. But, in reality, the EPA's finding gives Congress a very good excuse to not pass an enormously expensive cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases.
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...The Obama Administration is top-heavy with climate change radicals, including Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren, Energy Secretary Chu and Climate Czarina Carol Browner.