It’s Time to Discuss Cap and Trade » The Foundry

The value of a hearing (or in this case, a series of hearings) can often be extrapolated from who will be providing testimony.

The witnesses scheduled to provide testimony on the Waxman-Markey legislation largely fall into two groups. There are those in the energy business that have a financial stake in the legislation and there are those in the advocacy business that support capping carbon dioxide.
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Furthermore, all the political celebrities will be there, including former Vice President Al Gore, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary of Energy Steve Chu. It isn’t difficult to surmise how these three feel about investing taxpayer dollars in unproven sources of energy while heavily taxing the reliable ones.

Snow blankets northern Wisconsin

Since Saturday, temperatures have plummeted more than 30 degrees, and for many locations like Shawano, snow is accumulating for the first time since late March.

[Fraudster] Al's Journal : Now he endorses the idea that small amounts of CO2 and warming would harm corn

When climate crisis deniers and their allies argue that cap-and-trade and other legislation costs too much, they always seem to ignore the price of inaction.

The LA Times reported:

"Global warming could rob the U.S. economy of $1.4 billion a year in lost corn production alone, a national environmental group estimated in a report released Thursday."

"The Environment America study, based on government and university data, projects that warming temperatures will reduce yields of the nation's biggest crop by 3% in the Midwest and the South compared with projected yields without further global warming."

"Iowa would be hit hardest, losing $259 million a year in corn revenues, followed by Illinois at $243 million. California, which leads the country in agriculture but doesn't grow much corn, would take an estimated $4.7-million hit."

Nearly every industry will be impacted by our planet's warming. The costs of inaction far out way [sic] any expense incurred to repower America.

Particularly stupid climate propaganda: Let's claim that a little extra warmth and carbon dioxide would be devastating to a crop that likes warmth and carbon dioxide

The crop grows according to an "S"-shaped curve depending on temperature, with the ideal temperature for crop growth, if everything else is satisfactory such as nutrition and water availability, being somewhere around 93 F