Cap-and-trade may hinge on farm vote | coshoctontribune.com | Coshocton Tribune

# Farm groups want to ensure that growers will benefit from a cap-and-trade system.
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NASA scientist James Hansen recently called the cap-and-trade plan a "minor tweak to business-as-usual" and called instead for a tax on carbon to drive up the cost of fossil fuels and reduce their usage.

Environmentalists may have to decide whether the bill they can get through Congress - and past the farm lobby - is a bill worth having.

But if warmth is "good", why would we spend $45 trillion in a ridiculous attempt to make the weather a fraction of a degree cooler?: Windy, wet and warm – 2007 was a good climate year

Warmer winters in Europe between 2004 and 2007 have also meant that the amount of energy needed for home heating has been on the decline.