www.washingtonexaminer.com >> Politics - To get votes, Waxman offers cap-and-trade [scam] breaks

In exchange for votes to pass a controversial global warming package, Democratic leaders are offering some lawmakers generous emission “allowances” to protect their districts from the economic pain of pollution restrictions.
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Waxman told The Examiner he was not trading votes for allowances.

Hit & Run > Cap and Trade: The Politics Goes in Before the Market Goes On - Reason Magazine

I wrote about how politics inevitably precedes markets in pollution allowance trading way back in 1996. Ron Bailey has been on the contemporary cap-and-trade debate for us at Reason magazine and Reason Online like iron oxide on steel, and just a few weeks ago explained why it promises to be the biggest corporate welfare of all time.

Climate Bribery: Dems move to buy-off utilities with free credits « Green Hell Blog

Keep in mind that the federal government’s printing presses are churning out more dollars than ever before — so there’s plenty of money to buy-off everyone. Why didn’t anyone think of Zimbabwe-ing our way to green paradise before?

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Conspiracy and Criminalization of Public and Private Speech

Should private organizations (in this case energy companies or groups that receive energy company money) be allowed by law to present scientific findings in a manner that differs from a scientific consensus?

Should representations of science that differ from that consensus be criminalized? For private organizations that benefit from the representations? For those that do not? How about for individuals?

The Left Hand Knows Not What The Right Hand is Doing « Watts Up With That?

The AGW standard for broad acceptance of new theories seems to be “not completely implausible - if you avoid actually looking at the body of data or what you might have said last week.“