I Wish the Earth Were Warming — It Would Save a Lot of Lives by Vin Suprynowicz

First, if the earth was warming at a rate of about 1 or even 2 degree per century in recent decades, there are reasons to believe that’s slowed or stopped. One of those reasons is that the “global warming” fanatics have abruptly shifted their rhetoric, adopting instead the new nonsense euphemism “climate change.” This is a clear attempt at inoculation: If it turns out the globe is indeed cooling again, they will merely take their same pre-set, ulterior agenda – huge energy tax hikes to finance bigger government, cripple capitalism, and destroy the freedom-giving automobile, instead forcing everyone to pile like lemmings into “mass transit” – and declare that an identical agenda is now needed to fight “global cooling” … and that we dare not waste any time in debate! Hee-haw!

PREVIEW-Japan to choose on climate: lose face or lose money | Financial 24

By Risa Maeda TOKYO, June 1 - Japan's prime minister faces the country's toughest climate change challenge in more than a decade when he sets a greenhouse gas emissions goal for 2020 this month: he must either take a lead on the cuts or cave into pressure from business .

Martin Feldstein - The Folly of Unilateral Cap-and-Trade - washingtonpost.com

In my judgment, the proposed cap-and-trade system would be a costly policy that would penalize Americans with little effect on global warming. The proposal to give away most of the permits only makes a bad idea worse. Taxpayers and legislators should keep these things in mind before enacting any cap-and-trade system.

Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard University and president emeritus of the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research, was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984.