Investors see bright future in wind energy -- chicagotribune.com

"The smartest investors put their own personal prejudices aside," said Jeff Siegel, managing editor of Green Chip Stocks, an investment advisory service. "Many people think global warming is propaganda, but they're aware that the bottom line is climate change legislation is going to happen. Investors smart enough to realize this know there's an opportunity there."

TheHill.com - Reid sees global warming debate as a big headache

“Across America, healthcare is a problem for everybody, but that’s not the way it is for the carbon situation,” said Reid, who made his remarks at a forum sponsored by The National Journal Group.

Reid said that blue states “down the middle of this country,” such as Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Indiana, rely on coal.

These states either consume or mine large quantities of coal and all are represented by Democrats in the Senate.

Reid said that he has been told that coal-fired power meets 98 percent of Indiana’s energy needs.

The Democratic leader knows he has the power to bring a comprehensive energy bill addressing global warming to the floor but he is uncertain how many Democratic colleagues would side with him. Instead, Democrats from coal states may join Republicans to kill an effort to tax or otherwise restrict carbon emissions.

“I can bring the bill to the floor but I just hope we can get it done,” said Reid.

Interview With Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.)

Secretary Vilsack says agriculture is 7 percent of the problem relative to greenhouse gasses/climate change, and 25 percent of the solution....

Lucas: (Whistled and then said...) We're going to fix four times our weight of the problem! Bless us! I know there's been a lot of discussion out in the countryside and certain optimistic folks in Congress that we in agriculture should be and could be able to be rewarded for our good efforts. We are the original environmentalists of the world. We are the people who with the way we farm, the way we raise our livestock, that we sequester incredible amounts of carbon. I'm confident of that.

Won't life be great in a few years, after we've all scammed each other out of billions of dollars?