23,000 miners to lose jobs under carbon trading: industry - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The mining industry has released modelling saying 23,500 jobs will be lost by 2020 under the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme.

Steven Pearlstein - Climate-Change Bill Hits Some of the Right Notes but Botches the Refrain - washingtonpost.com

The Waxman-Markey bill may be the best bill that the political system can produce, and surely it is far preferable to doing nothing. But now that we know what a climate-change bill looks like when it is jury-rigged to accommodate all the special interests, maybe Americans will be willing to reconsider one of the cleaner, simpler approaches -- a carbon tax with all the revenue rebated to households, for example, or a cap-and-trade system that generates enough revenue to erase the national debt, or even a tough new regulatory regime requiring businesses to produce more fuel-efficient cars, buildings and appliances.

It's not too late to change our minds.

theblogprof: Author Henry Waxman On His Cap-And-Trade Bill: “I don’t know the details. I rely on the scientists.”