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FLYING A BIG AIRPLANE TO TALK ABOUT BEING GREEN: “The president flew all the way out to midcountry in his large airplane to the Hawkeye State to talk about saving the environment and developing green energy, which a 747 isn’t. But who would ever point out such an inconsistency if it didn’t involve evil automobile chief executives in their private jets?”

Obama is just blowing smoke | Salon

Waxman's blunt statement that the goal of cap and trade is to raise energy prices was deeply off-message for green groups, which have long insisted that energy efficiency and conservation would prevent energy prices from rising. But it was only the latest in a series of setbacks for climate legislation.

In March, the White House floated the idea of passing cap and trade as part of the budget, in order to avoid having to garner 60 votes to avoid a filibuster. But when moderate Senate Democrats, led by Evan Bayh, D-Ind., whose state is over 92 percent dependent on coal for electricity, joined Republicans in opposing the move, the White House quickly backed off. Then, on March 31, the day after Waxman, D-Calif., and Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., introduced cap and trade legislation, the Senate passed a resolution, 89-8, explicitly stating that the Senate will not pass climate legislation that raises energy prices. The next day the Senate passed another resolution, 98-0, which defined cap and trade as a tax.
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Green groups and armchair activists like Thomas Friedman routinely claim that government regulation is the key to unleashing technology innovation, just as it was for the I.T. revolution. But it's a bizarre claim. There was no cap and trade for typewriters to deploy personal computers; there was no telegraph tax to invent the Internet.

UK Budget "Carbon Con" should must be stopped - spend it on Council Housing instead says scientist | Climate Realists

The £1billion 'carbon budget' announced by Alistair Darling 22 April is nonsense to create a bubble of false value based on false science and will fail" said Piers Corbyn, 'Climate Realist' and astrophysicist of WeatherAction.com long range weather and Climate forecasters.