GOPer: Climate Bill Will Create 'Global Warming Gestapo' | TPMDC

Waxman: "I'd like to ask a question of the gentleman (Mr. Scalise), you've said global warming Gestapo, what does that mean?" Scalise: It basically is the powers that are vested in the Secretary under Section 201 of this cap and trade energy tax, to go into someone's house, number one to go in, and then charge them. Waxman: "So if anybody does something you don't like you call them Gestapo? What do you think of the people who run other government agencies, do you think the government is made up of Gestapo?" Scalise: "I don't think the government should be able to tell somebody if they're living in their home and they're abiding by all the laws that they're an unlawful occupant of their house, that's the terminology of the bill, that's frightening."

Bjorn Lomborg: The Climate-Industrial Complex - WSJ.com

There would be an outcry -- and rightfully so -- if big oil organized a climate change conference and invited only climate-change deniers.

The partnership among self-interested businesses, grandstanding politicians and alarmist campaigners truly is an unholy alliance. The climate-industrial complex does not promote discussion on how to overcome this challenge in a way that will be best for everybody. We should not be surprised or impressed that those who stand to make a profit are among the loudest calling for politicians to act. Spending a fortune on global carbon regulations will benefit a few, but dearly cost everybody else.