Morning Bell: The End of Cap and Trade is Near: And I feel fine

Now that everyone has admitted that the left’s call for global warming legislation is just a massive energy tax, it should be much easier to convince the American people this is a policy they want no part of. Today’s New York Times profiles Renee Daniels-Hanner of St. Louis, Missouri who now has an electricity bill averaging $160 a month in winter and $250 a month in the summer. According to Renee’s power company, AmerenUE, if cap and tax would become law, their cost to produce would double. Renee told the NYT: “We can barely afford what we have now.”

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Comments On “Air Pollutant Climate Forcings Within The Big Climate Picture” By Hansen et al. 2009

Climate Science invites Jim Hansen to present his perspective as to why land use change is not one of the dominate human-made climate forcings

The UN’s Global Green Raw Deal - Patrick J. Michaels - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Translation: The U.S. will provide funds to poorer nations so that they, too, can tell their private companies what to make, whom to employ, and how much to pay them. The UN wants your money pronto, by the end of next year.

Ethanol Policy 101: What Not to Do » The Foundry

Though intended to help consumers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the ethanol mandate has done just the opposite, contributing to high food and gas prices with little environmental benefit. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released yesterday confirmed this...