Colorado Legislature should pass energy efficiency bill

So what is there not to like about this bill? Ask William Schroeder, public affairs manager Intermountain Rural Electric Association. which serves thousands of customers to the east and southwest of Denver.

A passionate climate-change denier, Schroeder has supported questionable research by global-warming skeptics and resisted clean-energy legislation. His position on HB 1323 is consistent.

Climate [scam], dumping hurts industry-US steelmakers | Markets | Markets News | Reuters

NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. steel industry, hard hit by the global recession, urged Washington on Monday to enforce trade laws against foreign dumping and warned THAT climate change legislation will further hurt domestic steelmakers.

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Regarding the issue of restricting the carbon emissions that scientists say are linked to the gradual warming of the earth’s atmosphere, 18 percent said they would support a cap- and-trade system, and 23 percent backed a carbon tax.

Sun Oddly Quiet -- Hints at Next "Little Ice Age"?

...researchers are on guard against their concerns about a new cold snap being misinterpreted.

"[Global warming] skeptics tend to leap forward," said Mike Lockwood, a solar terrestrial physicist at the University of Southampton in the U.K. (Get the facts about global warming.)

He and other researchers are therefore engaged in what they call "preemptive denial" of a solar minimum leading to global cooling.

Even if the current solar lull is the beginning of a prolonged quiet, the scientists say, the star's effects on climate will pale in contrast with the influence of human-made greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2).

"I think you have to bear in mind that the CO2 is a good 50 to 60 percent higher than normal, whereas the decline in solar output is a few hundredths of one percent down," Lockwood said. "I think that helps keep it in perspective."