June 8: Greens' UN climate [swindle] advice: Slash CO2, pay $160bn- Developmental Issues-Earth-The Economic Times

OSLO: Environmental activists called on Monday for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and for developed nations to pay $160 billion a year to help the poor as part of a radical new UN climate treaty.

"It's going to be unpopular with almost everyone," said Tasneem Essop, of WWF International, of the blueprint issued on the sidelines of 181-nation UN talks in Bonn about a UN pact to be agreed in December in Copenhagen.

Weather History - June 13: [Did Hummers cause the 1889 forest fires?]

Meteorological events that happened on June 13th:

1889
Forest fires raged across northern Wisconsin and Northeast Minnesota, destroying millions of feet of timber.

Cap and trade schemes are bad for the economy and for the environment

With concern over global warming disappearing in a hurry, proponents of a cap and trade scheme are desperately churning out arguments in hopes of convincing Americans that carbon dioxide restrictions are necessary.
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America should ditch any effort to regulate carbon emissions. The science is unsupportive of such schemes and their economic effects are disastrous. Like everything else valuable in this world, a clean environment is the product of human ingenuity and free individuals cooperating for their own benefit.