'Green' Prince Charles, the private jets and a bill for £1.3m | Mail Online

...On both occasions he hired a private jet, leading to accusations of 'green hypocrisy' as the visits were designed to highlight environmental issues and global warming.

Last year the Queen and her extended family spent £6.5million between them on travel on behalf of the nation, up £300,000 on the previous 12 months.

That includes £5.3million on planes and helicopters, and £800,000 on the Royal Train.

After Precarious Climate [Swindle] Vote, Grassroots Pressure Needed More Than Ever | OurFuture.org

The House passed the first comprehensive clean energy and climate protection bill on Friday, but exactly in the way I worried about last week -- not on a wave of grassroots momentum, but last-minute cajoling by House leaders and expense of White House political capital leaning on wavering congresspeople.

Right-leaning Dems in swing districts pleaded to the Speaker to allow them vote against without repercussion, and she had to count every head so she could let as many skittish congresspeople off the hook as possible.

In other words, the climate bill was perceived as a politically risky "tough vote", not a momentum-building easy vote.

Ezra Klein - On the Passage of Waxman-Markey

On Friday, the Waxman-Markey climate change bill stumbled across the finish line in the House. Supporters had been hoping for a 20-30 vote margin. They secured, instead, a seven-vote win for a nearly broken bill.
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What further worries me is that the bill is all inside-game right now. I'd be surprised if 20 percent of the country knew cap-and-trade was moving through Congress. There's no popular mobilization for the legislation.
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Friday's vote was a tremendous testament to Waxman and Pelosi's capacity to move legislation. But the legislation on climate change is, I fear, further along then the politics. And my concern is that when you look at the state of the bill and the margin of the vote, you're looking more at Waxman and Pelosi's capacity to run the lower chamber than at Congress's readiness to seriously address global warming.

Controversy over Forum

The inclusion of Prof Plimer has some in the community concerned. His bestselling book, Heaven And Earth: Global Warming - The Missing Science, centres around humans having no effect on climate. The inference is that if we do not cause climate change, we need not alter our actions to reduce it.

Dr Matthew Nott, founder of the Bega-based action group Clean Energy for Eternity Inc., is concerned that the book may have influenced many including Senator Steve Fielding, who earlier this month posted on his website his thoughts about climate change.

Senator Fielding wrote that he needs more information to make a decision on whether he agrees or disagrees that manmade carbon dioxide emissions are the main driver of global warming.

“I expect the sort of people who will be turning up to that [the Nimmitabel carbon forum will be sceptics,” Dr Nott said.

“Ian Plimer’s book has had a huge impact. I don’t think it’s common knowledge that he has been incredibly misleading about his references,” he said