Friday, July 24, 2009

As Health Bill Is Delayed, White House Negotiates - NYTimes.com
While Congress can resume its efforts in the fall, other major items on the president’s agenda, like climate change and rewriting financial regulation, have also been postponed, and are likely to be further delayed until the health care debate is resolved.
Germany calls carbon tariffs eco-imperialism | Markets | Reuters
* Germany says carbon tariffs equal to "eco-imperialism"

* Says tariffs would directly violate WTO rules
Amazon.com: Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death (9780939571239): Paul Driessen: Books
Reveals a dark secret of the ideological environmental movement. The movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. It violates these people's most basic human rights, denying them economic opportunities, the chance for better lives, the right to rid their countries of diseases that were vanquished long ago in Europe and the United States.
Do Arguments Have to Be Symmetric? | Climate Skeptic
Shouldn’t there be symmetry here? If it is OK for every alarmist on the planet to show 1980-1995 temperature growing in lockstep with CO2 as “proof” of a relationship, isn’t it equally OK to show 1995-2010 temperature not growing in lockstep with CO2 to question the relationship? Why is one ok but the other incredibly stupid and/or mean-spirited?

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