Shimkus, Costello weigh in on cap-and-trade issue - Metro-east news - Belleville News-Democrat

What unites both men, however, is their fierce opposition to a controversial bill sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. -- and strongly supported by Democratic leaders, including President Barack Obama -- that for the first time seeks to put a price on carbon-dioxide emissions by imposing a cap-and-trade system.

You had me at "die": "Nature will deal with sceptics" - Crikey

It’s the sort incoherent bogey-man conception that is impossible to argue with. And that’s the thing about the climate sceptics; for all of their claims to be the defenders of the truth and heroes of dissent, they have made themselves immune to the evidence that the real world throws up. There appears to be only one way to deal with the sceptics: wait patiently for them to die off. It shouldn’t take long.
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Clive Hamilton is Visiting Professor, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the author of Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change (Black Inc).