What Will You Give Up to Fight Global Warming? » The Foundry

As recently acknowledged by a top White House official, a global warming tax could generate as much as $1.9 trillion in tax revenue over eight years, which amounts to a nearly $2,000 tax every year for every American household.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » The Thune Amendment

What was the vote on the Thune Amendment? 89-8 in favor of the Amendment, 48 Democrats and 41 Republicans. Only 8 members of the Senate were willing to go on record saying that they support the purpose of a cap and trade bill, to make carbon-emitting energy more expensive. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) voted for the Thune Amendment had this to say:

Any kind of cap-and-trade system that comes forward will not raise energy and gas prices.

The Thune Amendment effectively kills cap and trade as a mechanism for reducing emissions. I have little doubt that the legislation will go forward, and it likely will pass in some form and do many things. Its just that reducing emissions won’t be among them. Cap and trade is dead, but the charade will go on.

Alarmist Glikson - Lobbyists swarm Washington [allegedly] to fight Obama's cap-and-trade

ANU Earth and paleo-climate scientist Dr Andrew Glikson writes:

With Obama’s carbon cap-and-trade legislation now on Washington’s agenda and the upcoming vote in congress -- following eight "good years" under Bush's "climate skeptic" presidency -- a well funded wake up call has been issued by an army of vested interests, companies and conservative think tanks. Hiring no fewer than 2340 lobbyists on behalf of some 700 companies, one for every four congressmen, these people hope to water down, or even derail, effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, threatening a Senate filibuster.

1. Does Glikson really think that all 2340 lobbyists are lobbying *against* cap-and-trade?

2. Does Glikson think we have over 9,000 congressmen in Washington?