Saturday, July 04, 2009

[Idiotic] book industry is flourishing - JSOnline
The festival in April named "The Carbon Diaries: 2015," a novel by Saci Lloyd its grand-prize winner, citing "its vivid portrayal of a world that may become the new normal in short order" and its "page-turning way of making the reality of the environment's possible future understandable to the average reader."

This warning tale about global warming tells the story of 16-year-old Laura Brown, a punk rocker in London, who writes about the year 2015 in diary form. She tells of huge storms that have brought massive climate changes and forced Britain to become the first country to ration carbon. Each British citizen is allowed a very small number of carbon points to be used each month. Of course, the novel ends with no clear resolution - but it should raise the attention level of many readers.
RealClearPolitics - This is How Congress Works
After years of effort, he led the House to finally pass climate change legislation, the 1,400-page "cap and trade" bill. I won't explain it to you because I can't. Only Waxman of California, and maybe his co-sponsor, Edward Markey of Massachusetts, know everything that's in there. If it passes the Senate, it will change the way we live and what we burn to keep on living.
YouTube - Rep. Waxman on his own bill: "I don't know the details. I rely on the scientists."

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