Waxman-Markey: Corruption In, Corruption Out « Green Hell Blog

It’s hard to say whether the Waxman-Markey global warming bill that will soon be debated and voted on in the House is the most intellectually- and morally-corrupt bill ever seriously considered by Congress. But I’d bet that there are 433 congressmen who are glad that this legislative atrocity is not named after them.

After years of fierce battling by greens and global warming skeptics, few Americans seem to buy into the bill’s premise — that manmade emissions of carbon dioxide are causing the planet to run a fever, as Al Gore is fond of saying...

Houston Biodiesel Plant For Sale - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

When the $70 million GreenHunter Energy biodiesel refinery opened on the Houston Ship Channel almost exactly a year ago with the capacity to produce 105 million gallons of fuel a year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry bragged that the plant embodied “the future of energy in Texas and the United States.”

But on Tuesday The Houston Chronicle reported that GreenHunter is financially strapped and seeking to sell the plant. The refinery — reported by The Chronicle to be the country’s largest — has been idled the last four months due to low demand for fuel in the United States, as well as new trade barriers imposed by Europe on American biodiesel exports. Damages from last summer’s Hurricane Ike didn’t help matters either.

DENNIS T. AVERY: Overheated White House Environmental Campaigns

The global climate computer models, incredibly, have been programmed without any knowledge of the Medieval Warming, the Roman Warming and 500 previous global warmings that have arrived as part of the warming/cooling cycle every 1,500 years--thanks to the sun, cosmic rays, and low, wet clouds that deflect solar heat back into outer space.

The White House should double check its realities.