Oprah to Planet Earth: Drop Dead | Deceiver.com

Why, one such wildly successful hypocrite might even have a “Going Green 101″ episode of her insanely popular daytime talk show, and invite Al Gore on to talk about “Global Warming 101.” (They’ve all got to be entry-level courses, see, because you’re stupid.) But eventually, when the hysteria starts to die down and she realizes she’s not going to make any more money from WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE, she might just drop the facade and admit that being rich and using up all kinds of precious natural resources is super-awesome.

By the way, didn’t Oprah do an awful lot to get Obama elected? She did? Okay. And isn’t he the one who keeps saying that all these mean ol’ rich people should stop being so greedy? That they need to stop pursuing profit and just do what he says? That he’s the only guy standing between them and the pitchforks? Isn’t he revealing himself to be an old-school class-warrior, of the type who wants you to believe it’s not fair that somebody else has a private jet while you don’t?

CO2 Cap & Trade Meets the (China) Dragon: Why Legislating Trillions of Dollars in Regulatory Costs Would Be Climatically Inconsequential — MasterResource

The Waxman-Markey climate bill–characterized as a “648 page cap-and-trade monstrosity” by Al Gore’s mentor, James Hansen–is intended to bring the U.S. into line with Europe and Japan on CO2 policy. But as I have explained previously, the current U.S. policy discouraging new coal and new nuclear capacity will:

1. Make the U.S. more dependent on energy imports,
2. Drive up generation costs,
3. Artificially incite demand for fickle natural gas, and related infrastructure such as LNG regasification facilities, and
4. Increase reliance on old coal and old nuclear for baseload power, resulting in less efficient, less clean, and less reliable electricity.

Twitter / John Kelly

I'd lk a $1 million grant 2 keep the sky from falling. If it doesn't fall, I was obviously successful. Global warming = falling sky!

Democrats edge closer to climate bill deal - Lisa Lerer and Patrick O'Connor - POLITICO.com

Democratic pollster Mark Mellman briefed House Democrats Tuesday night on the politics of climate-change, urging them to shy away from poorly polling terms like "cap and trade" and "green jobs."