Saturday, July 11, 2009

The Hill Mobile - Climate bill takes hit in Senate from China
The refusal of China and other emerging economic powers to agree to emissions limits this week will make it tougher for key Senate Democrats to support a global warming bill.

Both Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) say they are skeptical of the climate change bill that passed the House last month. The legislation has an uncertain future in the Senate, and Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced on Thursday that she is delaying the bill until after the August recess.

Brown, Lincoln and other Democrats say the reluctance of China and India to agree to emission restrictions clearly complicates the party’s effort to pass the bill, given the likelihood that Republicans will lock down against it. Brown said it will naturally be difficult to persuade the public to support a bill that could increase costs for businesses if there’s a fear competition in China will gain an advantage.
[Best person for the job?] - Obama Hawaii campaign director "wins" appointment
HONOLULU (AP) — Andy Winer, who directed Barack Obama's presidential campaign in Hawaii last year, will soon leave the islands to take an administration post.

Winer says he has accepted an offer to become director of external affairs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

In that role, he says he will develop communication and political strategies for the agency with business groups, environmental groups, state and local governments, and Indian tribes.

He will tackle a range of issues, including climate change, fisheries management and ocean ecology.
Climate change: The sun and the oceans do not lie - Telegraph
We still have a long way to go before that Copenhagen treaty is agreed in December, and with China, India and 128 other countries still demanding trillions of dollars as the price of their co-operation, the prospect of anything but a hopelessly fudged agreement looks slim. But even a compromise could inflict devastating damage on our own economic future – all for a theory now shot so full of holes that its supporters are having to suppress free speech to defend it.
American Thinker Blog: Obama's Wrapping Paper
Perhaps by accident, but more likely by design, President Obama may have very well found the new cover he can apply to the statist ambitions he has for America: "Saving the Planet." If Obama is somehow able to get his much desired Cap and Trade legislation, already passed by the House, through Senate, it would open the door for all sorts of new laws and regulations that would seriously compromise the way of life that American have been accustomed to.

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