[Climate fraud] will exact toll on families | The Japan Times Online

Japan's efforts to achieve its midterm goal of curbing greenhouse gas emissions will cost each household ¥77,000 a year, according to an estimate released Wednesday by a government panel.

Air America: What’s Its Carbon Footprint?

But here’s a question: If global warming is such a damn dire threat that we have to rush through 1,000+ page cap-and-tax legislation without even reading the bill itself, is it a good use of taxpayer money or supposedly precious carbon emissions to give Gulfstreams to Nancy Pelosi?

CA Climate Strategy: Learn to Adapt | Mother Jones

To many in the scientific community, this issue is a no-brainer. The earth is broken and we are not doing enough to fix it. So our best chance of survival might be to accept it and prepare to live in a world ravaged by climate change.

Flying Miss Nancy

And some have an outsized sense of privilege. In 2007, just a month into the new Democratic majority, Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked that taxpayers provide a jet that could make a nonstop flight to her Bay Area district. She reportedly wanted a luxury, stateroom-outfitted version of Boeing's 757-200 like those the vice president, first lady and Cabinet officials fly on.

And there was a lot of foot-stamping when the Bush White House said no.

GayPatriot » Boxer has no plans to meet with LA constituents on health care reform

While Waxman has one meeting scheduled on climate change on Friday, August 21, when I tried to register online, I found that the event was already full, with a waiting list of 86.