Energizing the Senate cap-and-trade [swindle] bill - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

Efforts to pass a cap-and-trade bill last June by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) failed. What’s changed since then that now makes you think the Senate could pass climate legislation?

[New Mexico Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman, whistling in the dark] There’s more awareness of the seriousness of the problem. With a very few exceptions here in the Congress, most people are persuaded that the science is clear, that we are putting too much in the way of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere, and we need to reduce that. The debate has shifted to how you design a mechanism to reduce that in the most efficient way.

Academy of Sciences takes heat for exhibits | San Francisco Examiner

The scientific integrity of the California Academy of Sciences’ prominent climate change exhibit has come under attack for two starkly different reasons.

A hearing scheduled today in San Francisco Superior Court’s small-claims department will consider a request by resident Michael Phillips for a $159 refund of his family membership.

Phillips claimed the academy’s climate change exhibit is based on an aging theory by NASA scientist James Hansen and fails to present conflicting evidence.
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Separately, another exhibit has been criticized by scientist Ken Caldeira, a climate change expert at the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Stanford University-based Department of Global Ecology.

The exhibit promotes cement that Los Gatos-based Calera Corp. said can suck up carbon dioxide.

Caldeira described the exhibit as a “scam” in a string of e-mails to academy officials. The chemical reaction actually requires the addition of expensive alkali and would create waste acid, he said.