Doubting it's global warming; seems more like just the weather | VailDaily.com

Let’s settle down and think this through and not throw away our oil-based economy just yet. We have time to change to other technologies. Let’s not tax energy around the world, which would be a tax on the poor (China and India won’t pay anyway). There is no urgency to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 is the heaviest gas in the atmosphere and only 500 parts per million; it hugs the earth and feeds vegetation. It does not pollute any more than water vapor (now there’s a real greenhouse gas!)

My father told me once that someday the government would find a way to tax the air we breathe.

So let’s come full circle from the great crisis of “global warming” and “climate change” to just “the weather.”

James Shannon

What's Good for Chrysler is Good for the Masses - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Regarding my post and Henry's below (and his longer Corner item), the signals could not be any more clear about the present and future machinations and motivations involved in the unfolding Chrysler disaster than what I just saw:

At his presser announcing the matter, the individual immediately to his left (not much room, admittedly . . . except possibly for recent-ex-board members of the Socialist International) appeared to be none other than Climate and Energy Czarina Carol Browner.

Ummm . . . why? At an event to announce an auto company's . . . state . . . managed . . . future. Ah. Right.

Greed, Green and Grains: What coordination problem?

In my own circles I hear that climate scientists sounding the alarm about global warming are simply pursuing larger federally-funded research budgets. I wonder if these people have thought carefully about the coordination problems involved with such a strategy, and compared it to, say, coordination by OPEC countries (which appears largely ineffective at controlling prices[1][2]).