The Carbonated Congress - WSJ.com

Orszag nails it: The 'largest corporate welfare program' ever.
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President Obama is calling the climate bill that the House passed last week an "extraordinary" achievement, and so it is. The 1,200-page wonder manages the supreme feat of being both hugely expensive while doing almost nothing to reduce carbon emissions.

The Washington press corps is playing the bill's 219-212 passage as a political triumph, even though one of five Democrats voted against it. The real story is what Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House baron Henry Waxman and the President himself had to concede to secure even that eyelash margin among the House's liberal majority. Not even Tom DeLay would have imagined the extravaganza of log-rolling, vote-buying, outright corporate bribes, side deals, subsidies and policy loopholes. Every green goal, even taken on its own terms, was watered down or given up for the sake of political rents.

Unprecedented Again « the Air Vent

From Science Daily where I read fairly often, I found this headline.
Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland

The title makes you instantly skeptical because sea ice isn’t at it’s lowest even in the last two years. Of course we then have to wonder how they determined sea ice levels back 800 years.

Stabroek News - Clinton Foundation lauds [climate swindle]

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday met with representatives of the Clinton Foundation who praised the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) document and his leadership on climate change.