Sonia Sotomayor: Environmental extremist? « Green Hell Blog

Senators should probe whether Judge Sotomayor lacks the common-sense realization that the benefits of environmental regulation ought to outweigh its costs — a worldview with ominous implications given the nation’s present rush toward cap-and-tax global warming regulation and other green mindlessness.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Why it's easy to be a global warming skeptic

If you look at the behaviour of the activists supporting major action to combat climate change, it is easy to understand why skeptics are so angry. To be blunt, sometimes the activists act like thugs.

Too much emphasis on emissions targets

LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said on Tuesday that setting exact targets for carbon dioxide emissions had led to an "over-obsession" with numbers, as the United States moved closer to overhauling its energy policy.
The comment came less than a week after a congressional panel approved President Barack Obama's landmark draft bill on climate change, bringing it closer to debate in Congress.
"There was a great deal of discussion on the Kyoto targets, and I'm not really sure which fraction of the countries that took part in that actually met their targets," Chu, a Nobel laureate for physics, said at a conference in London. "In terms of the targets, whether it's 17 percent or 20 or 25 percent, I think there's perhaps ... an over-obsession on these percentages."

Intrade Prediction Markets: Still not convinced cap and trade is coming any time soon