Eco-Minister Flunks Global Warming Test

And even the alarmists admit these carbon taxes would only reduce the earth’s future warming by a barely-measurable one ten-thousandth of a degree C. The alarmists own math, CO2 makes up only 3.8 percent of the atmosphere, humans release only about 4 percent of that, and it just doesn’t matter.

The latest report is that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has decided to delay his cap-and-tax bill for another year.

Beware 'cosy relationships' | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

Often, when climate hysterics and global warming alarmists don't like what I write -- but don't know what they're talking about and thus have nothing intelligent to say in response -- they come back with what they think is their knock-out punch.

It's always words to the effect of: "I hope you're happy getting your blood money from the oil companies, Mr. Goldstein. How can you look at yourself in the mirror every morning? Don't you care about your grandchildren? What happened to journalistic integrity?"

Sometimes, they include in their missives their membership in some obscure organization, usually built around the idea that if we would all just give all our money to the government, or to some other collection of wise elites, and let them spend it for us on our behalf, the world would be a cleaner, safer and "cooler" (pardon the pun) place.

That's pretty much the theory behind carbon taxes and cap-and-trade, by the way.

Pelosi, Waxman, Markey, Slaughter "Triumph" - The Atlantic Politics Channel

The bill is so big, so audacious, even in its watered down form, that if it somehow manages to pass the Senate, it will almost immediately change the lives and lifestyle of every American, the fortunes of major industries, and the economic future of regions, cities and towns.
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...from the perspective of institutional politics, I'd say that the winners tonight are Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ability to corral her caucus behind legislation that would disproportionately hurt some of their districts is perhaps the greatest accomplishment of her tenure; the persistence of Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, who insisted on moving this bill forward even though the White House was skeptical, and the nimble rulemaking of Louise Slaughter, who managed the amendments process in a way that gave just enough Republicans and Democrats just enough of a reason to support it. It's on to the Senate, where longtime climate skeptic James Inhofe says it's DOA. We will see.