President Obama's Red Sea

As 2,600 delegates flew greenhouse-gas-spewing jetliners to Bonn for another five-star-hotel UN climate change confab, envoy Todd Stern announced that the White House is "seized with the urgency" of tackling runaway global warming. Looming on the horizon is a hulking 648-page House climate change bill. Equally monstrous Senate and EPA versions wait in the wings.

President Obama wants energy prices to "skyrocket," to coerce Americans to slash carbon dioxide emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 - to levels last seen in 1905! He says cap-and-trade will "raise" $656 billion between 2012 and 2019, to fund green energy, green job and other government programs. The National Economic Council and other analysts put the tax bite at $1.3 to $3.0 trillion.

This is not monetary manna. It is a massive wealth transfer - extracted from every hydrocarbon-using business, motorist and family, and doled out by Congress and bureaucrats to politically favored constituencies. These all-intrusive energy taxes will hit poorest households hardest.

Obama keeps Bush policy on polar bears: Endangered Species Act won't be used on global warming - TwinCities.com

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to keep a Bush-era policy on polar bears — declining to crack down on greenhouse-gas polluters on the grounds that their emissions are helping shrink the bears' habitat on Arctic sea ice, officials announced Friday.

The reason, officials said: The problem of climate change is so big, and so complicated, that it would overwhelm the bureaucracy created to protect threatened and endangered species.

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FORT COLLINS — Gov. Bill Ritter’s climate change coordinator will talk to residents about how they, companies and governments can help battle climate change in Colorado.

Alice Madden, the former House majority leader for the Colorado Legislature and a senior fellow on climate change for the Center for American Progress, will offer a free talk in Fort Collins on Wednesday.