Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The Cost of [a] Cap and Trade [Swindle]

The real issue is not simply how much cap and trade legislation will cost U.S. households. The politics of the issue are such that the answer necessarily must be "not very much." The real question is what kind of emissions reductions can you get for the low cost that the political process is willing to bear. Unfortunately, climate policy has not yet internalized this important boundary condition meaning that the political process is characterized by every trick imaginable to avoid, reduce, or otherwise make costs disappear. If climate policy were being developed with a better sense of political realities, then we'd see a dramatically different approach -- maybe even one that could actually work.

NC Media Watch: Climate 101 - Not (updated)

To insure you have both sides of the climate change story, something missing from Warming 101, you might want to visit the following sites as well.

Tell Me Again Why Couric Is Considered Smarter than Palin? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Change can be scary, but the consequence of doing nothing is even scarier. At some point we must focus on the future, even if that means some growing pains along the way.

That's a page from my notebook.

I'm Katie Couric, CBS News.

Hansen Fan Angrily Insists on Recent Cooling - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Economist R. K. Pachauri could not be reached for comment.