Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Predicting the Waxman-Markey Vote and the Limits of Political Science

Silver has applied his model to the Senate and finds only 52 votes with a probability greater than 50% of supporting Waxman-Markey. Silver is correct to note that the Senate bill won't be the House bill and all sorts of dynamics could be in play. So I wouldn't write off Senate passage just yet, but I'd be very surprised if it happened in 2009. Silver comes to the right conclusion:

The question is how many ornaments the Democrats could place on the Christmas Tree before it starts to collapse under its own weight.

Carbon [Swindle] Trading Set to Triple by 2012 -- Seeking Alpha

Following the recent approval by the US House of Representatives of a climate change bill, the world now appears set on an irreversible path toward a dramatic expansion of carbon trading. Oxford Analytica takes a look at carbon emissions legislation around the world in a new report.

Al Gore Watches Temps and Credibility Drop Since ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

All of the most powerful evidence–from temperature change going back thousands of years, to solar activity, to global warming on other planets, to unreliable data–points toward natural and cyclic causes for temperature fluctuations. Socialists in Washington want to scuttle the American economy based on junk science…or simply a convenient excuse to exercise more control over their American subjects.

The American people must send that message loud and clear over and over again until the socialist tyrants in Washington either learn to behave, or we remove them from office in 2010 and 2012.