America, the not-so-beautiful

...The other is the "cap and trade" legislation. At a time when it has become all but obvious that the "global warming" scare was an imposture, the U.S. government is going to war against carbon fuels, through a program that can only kill jobs, both directly and through outsourcing of American economic activity to places with lower environmental standards; while igniting protectionist trade wars over the latter.

The scheme will cause gas and electricity prices to skyrocket -- to the immediate benefit of the big private energy conglomerates (thus setting them up for further demonization, and the next round of nationalization). By triggering a massive inflation of energy prices, it will do most harm to those on fixed incomes -- to the poor and the elderly most of all. Like all such gargantuan schemes, it will create a circus of fraud and corruption. And yet, at the end of the day, it will have no significant impact on the environment.

Lord Lawson: The Tories need to find the bottle to cut public spending - City AM

Clearly irritated by the line of questioning, Lawson cuts the interview short and goes to find the BBC’s John Humphrys, who is hosting the event, to complain about the fact he wasn’t invited on to the Today programme to discuss his sceptical book on climate change. Having given the presenter a rare dressing down, he goes to meet his car. At least he doesn’t have to get the tube.

Amazon.com: An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming: Nigel Lawson: Books

Former British energy secretary and chancellor of the exchequer Lawson succinctly lambastes global warming hysteria in this slim book. To Lawson, save the planet is the most ludicrous slogan ever coined; Al Gore's tendentious documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is a fanciful cherry-picking of phenomena illustrating a predetermined alarmist narrative; and the new religion of environmentalism contains a grain of truth—and a mountain of nonsense.