Joe Barton: How Congress’s drive to stop global warming is fueling China’s drive to out-compete the U.S.

It seems to me that President Hu Jintao will be the one smiling widest if the day comes that President Obama signs the Democrats’ cap-and-trade legislation. After that, energy-intensive U.S. businesses will have two choices: Close up shop or go overseas, probably to China. The EPA has been cautioned about the prospect of U.S. job leakage rates hitting 20 percent, and the perverse possibility that a fifth of developed-country emissions cuts will become developing country emissions as work leaves here and starts there.

YouTube - Communicating climate change

Communicating climate change - the video - profiles the work of the Climate Change Media Partnership. The partnership between Panos, Internews and IIED provides annual training fellowships for journalists from the developing South.

Defining Success in Copenhagen - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Yvo de Boer tells the BBC that we should bring $10 billion in cash and a 25 to 40 percent reduction in CO2 emissions to the table in Copenhagen; if Brazil, India, and China then "[offer] national actions that will significantly take their emissions below business as usual," they can gather up their sacks of cash.

And that will be a success.

[Pure insanity from Coca-Cola Enterprises: If they emit less "deadly" CO2 into the air, will there be more available to deliberately inject into our drinks?]

CCE also reiterated its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders program, an industry-government partnership that works to develop comprehensive climate change strategies. As a partner in the EPA Climate Leaders, CCE has pledged to reduce its company-wide greenhouse gas emissions and will annually report its progress to the EPA.