Debra J. Saunders: Mastering the Democrats' dialect

Clean coal: What Santa Claus puts in Democrats' stockings so they don't have to admit that their global-warming agenda is anti-coal.

Climate change: Global warming during a blizzard.
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Global warming: An apocalyptic theory that every scientist believes in - except dissenting scientists who don't count - best bemoaned from one's Gulf Stream jet en route to an international conference on the environment.

Darker Times for Solar-Power Industry - WSJ.com

To adapt, Q-Cells' [the world's biggest solar-cell manufacturer by volume] Mr. Milner has slashed capital-spending more than 40% from last year, and has postponed the construction of a new factory by six months. This year, the company, which hired 800 workers in 2008 as its revenue rose 30%, has let the contracts of its temporary workers expire and has laid off about 80 people.

"I've gone from managing for rapid growth to managing for cost reductions," said Mr. Milner.

NC Media Watch: Would you pay $75,000 for a re-run that is free on the Internet?

California is having sever budget problems, yet CARB can find $200,000 for a global warming get together on how to reduce the bay areas carbon foot print. Apparently they need to spark more bureaucratic commitment to reduce the Bay Areas green house gas-footprint, since the latest polls show fewer and fewer American's think that global warming is cause by humans. CARB needed to pick up the going-green momentum before the climate cools any more. So, they spent $200,000 dollars to drum up more support from about 500 local planners and managers. Maybe CARB had detected the bureaucratic religious commitment to the myth of human caused global warming was slipping. I wonder if CARB brought in some drummers to accompany the retread speech.

globeandmail.com: Canadians cool on carbon tax: poll

VICTORIA — Canadians are willing to flirt with a nationwide carbon tax to fight climate change, but bets are off when it comes to paying the bill, a new poll has found.

A Harris-Decima telephone poll conducted exclusively for The Canadian Press found 49 per cent of respondents said they supported bringing in a carbon tax.

But when asked specifically if they'd support a carbon tax like British Columbia's which would incrementally hike the cost of gas and home heating oil, support dropped to 42 per cent.
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“Eighty to eighty-five per cent of North Americans think something should be done, and it's an important issue, but what you have is concern that's a mile wide and an inch deep,” said Mr. Gifford.