City of Dallas lobbies for climate swindle cash

Even the City of Dallas joined the party. The city paid Barbara T. McCall Associates Inc. $120,000 to lobby on its behalf in 2008.

Brett Wilkinson, director of intergovernmental services for the city, said that figure is the total amount the city paid McCall for all of her lobbying efforts last year, including transportation, stimulus funds and the Trinity River Project.

He said McCall lobbied for the climate change bill to include funding for an energy efficiency and conservation block grant program. The city doesn't have an official position on climate change policy, he said.

4x4 trek slammed for spreading wrong message > National News > News | Click Green

A 22,000-mile 4x4 expedition to highlight the dangers of climate change has been criticised for “spreading the wrong message”.

The team of three green campaigners is travelling off-road in a brand new Land Rover Defender to visit remote communities in 31 countries and warn of the need to reduce carbon footprints.
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Leading environment expert Kevin Smith, of Carbon Trade Watch, warned: “How can they travel all the way to these communities in Africa and South America to warn them of the dangers of climate change?

“These places probably have a neglible carbon footprint and yet we're pitching up in a 12-mile-to-the-gallon Land Rover to tell them to do more – I couldn't think of anything more hypocritical.”

[Again, I'd like to see this writer defend this idea in front of a town hall packed with actual taxpayers] | Indiana Daily Student |

Though tariffs can only be selectively implemented, and can have negative repercussions, there are better industrial solutions to climate change. Perhaps the best of which is for First-World countries to pay for emissions reduction in developing countries, which have yet to implement many of the cheapest (and most effective) technologies.