2050: Philadelphia Becomes Orlando - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com

Philadelphia may soon become a bit more like Orlando, scientists say, thanks to climate change

[Still more alarmist BS from Bryan Walsh at Time]: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

But we don't have the luxury of philosophizing about food. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price of oil — which will affect everything from fertilizer to supermarket electricity bills — our industrial style of food production will end sooner or later. As the developing world grows richer, hundreds of millions of people will want to shift to the same calorie-heavy, protein-rich diet that has made Americans so unhealthy — demand for meat and poultry worldwide is set to rise 25% by 2015 — but the earth can no longer deliver. Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food, they face a future of eroded farmland, hollowed-out countryside, scarier germs, higher health costs — and bland taste.

Candlemakers’ Union Endorses Edison’s Lightbulb - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Can the United Steelworkers really believe that it's in their long-term interest to get behind cap-and-trade? Sure, we'll be building all those wind turbines. But after the coal companies are bankrupted (as the president has promised), what will the steelworkers be making then?

Or perhaps there was a little under-the-table agreement of the sort that would never happen in the most transparent administration in American history — you know, like the one that PhRMA is rumored to have reached with the White House.

Government takeover | Tulsa Beacon

We are on the brink of enacting “cap-and-trade” legislation that will cripple American competitiveness in the global economy, double home utility bills, add thousands to the cost of new cars, and cost U.S. workers an estimated 2.5 million jobs per year - while doing next to nothing to impact a “global warming” problem that is largely fictitious to begin with