How Cap-and-Trade Super-sizes the Federal Government | GlobalWarming.org

A picture, however, is worth a thousand words (perhaps even 1,500 pages) which is why the healthcare chart is such a powerful symbol-it visualizes the impact of a major policy that absolutely no one understands, with the obvious exception of Members of Congress and the lobbyists who wrote it.

The office of the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives compiled a similar type of chart to inform the debate over the climate change bill late last month. A copy is shown below.

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ENVIRONMENTALISTS OPPOSE GREENHOUSE-FRIENDLY POWER: “Several environmental groups are banding together in petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stop TVA from operating a second reactor at Watts Bar nuclear plant.”

Hey, I thought we were in a global-warming crisis where we needed drastic measures. This looks more like business as usual to me. Perhaps if they acted like there was a crisis, more people would believe there was a crisis.

EUobserver / MEPs carve up top jobs in new parliament

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - German centre-right MEP Herbert Reul is being tipped to chair the EU parliament's industry committee, as political groups haggle over jobs following last month's elections.

The industry appointment would ring alarm bells in Brussels' pro-green community, with Mr Reul noted for his scepticism on the human impact on global warming.

"Given the available scientific evidence and the ongoing discussion, we should be careful to point only to one cause for climate change," Mr Reul told this website.

Video: Miliband promises more green jobs but Vestas wind turbine plant is closing - Times Online

All 7,000 turbines that the Government will commit today to installing over the next decade will be manufactured overseas, mainly in Germany, Denmark and China.