The Global Warming [Swindle] Bill's Rough Ride Through Congress - TIME

[Photo caption] Arctic sea ice is melting so fast most of it could be gone in 30 years, according to a new report.
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If Nancy Pelosi gets her way by the end of the week, the U.S. House of Representatives will have passed landmark global warming legislation. But you might not know it from the near unanimously bad reviews so many different interested parties are giving it. Groups as disparate as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Farm Bureau, the American Petroleum Institute and the National Association of Manufacturers have expressed either strong concerns or outright opposition to the bill.
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It wasn't supposed to be this way. Global warming has long been a Democratic priority — and with House Speaker Pelosi and President Barack Obama behind it, many didn't think Democrats would have had such a hard time reaching a consensus on legislation.
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More than anyone on Capitol Hill, Pelosi has staked her reputation on the bill, which would require a 17% reduction of greenhouse gases by 2020 from 2005 levels and about an 80% reduction by mid-century. A failed vote could be devastating to her embattled speakership.
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"It's not a perfect bill and we're concerned that the Senate might weaken the near-term emissions reduction caps," said Brenda Ekwurzel, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, holding a placard behind Waxman. "We'd look at that closely before giving our final support."

One would imagine that such a delicately crafted, Senate-like compromise would stand a good chance in the Senate. A bipartisan climate change bill failed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate last year by a vote of 54-36, and the Democrats have gained at least seven seats since then. But if it was tough to convince rural House Democrats, winning over senators from farm states, who carry much more relative power than their House counterparts, will be even harder. And if the House compromise made many prominent groups unhappy, one can only image what feelings the sausage making in the Senate will provoke.

Australian Climate Madness: Climate clowns do battle

Kevin Rudd and Bill Clinton talk climate, reports The Australian. Oh, to be a fly on the wall - can you imagine all the misunderstandings, inanities, IPCC-speak and suchlike flying back and forth? Talk about the blind leading the blind…

WSJ: As the number of man-made global warming skeptics swells 'blogs are having a field day' | GORE LIED

This column by Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel made my day week month.