Australia: [Gasp!] 'Oppn MPs are climate change sceptics'

The fundamental problem in passing the government's emissions trading bill lies with climate sceptic coalition MPs not with independent Senator Steve Fielding, Greg Combet says.

Mr Combet, parliamentary secretary for climate change, said Senator Fielding was entitled to go and talk to whoever he wanted.

Senator Fielding, whose vote and that of the Greens and fellow Independent Senator Nick Xenophon, is vital to the government to pass the legislation in the face of coalition opposition, has reportedly gone off to attend a climate sceptics conference in Washington.
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"But of course climate change sceptics are the sorts of people we see in the Liberal Party and certainly in the National Party," he told ABC television.

Latta warns steel workers about cap-and-trade effects | latta, workers, cap - Local News - LimaOhio.com

LEIPSIC - U.S. Rep. Bob Latta continued his ongoing anti-cap-and-trade tour this morning with a stop at Leipsic's PRO-TEC Coating Company plant.

Latta, R-Bowling Green, has been touring the region and much of the rest of the country over the past few weeks, warning of what he calls the dangerous likely outcome of the cap-and-trade process proposed by President Barack Obama's administration.

Ronald Bailey: The Folly of Unilateral Carbon Rationing - Reason Magazine

Basically, under ACES, the U.S. would be imposing an energy price increase on its producers and consumers making the country less competitive compared to countries that would still be using cheaper fossil fuels. In an attempt to counteract this problem, the Federal government under ACES can award a portion of its emissions permits as a subsidy to energy intensive U.S. companies that are disadvantaged by the cap-and-trade scheme. Although the proposal was dropped in the current ACES bill, it is very likely that a countervailing carbon tariff will be included in future cap-and-trade legislation. Such subsidy and tariff provisions will likely provoke carbon trade wars.