Dr Roy's Thoughts: I.D.U.

We also had a long chat about cap and tax. [Congressman Jim Sennsebrenner] told me many dem congressmen were getting lambasted on their return home for voting for the waxman markey bill.

Dixie Dem won't vote for Pelosi - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

Freshman Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) — who has bucked Dem leadership on the stimulus and climate change — told a town hall back in north Alabama that he doesn't plan to back Nancy Pelosi as speaker again, saying she's too divisive.

"I would not vote for her. Someone that divisive and that polarizing cannot bring us together," he said, according to the Huntsville (Ala.) Times.

"If she doesn't like it, I've got a gift certificate to the mental health center," he added.

[CEO of company that sells carbon offsets: You should buy carbon offsets]

Patti: Carbon offsets are not just useful, they’re critical. You can cut your footprint in half with painstaking conservation, but you still need to feed your family, heat your home, go to work, get your kids to school and to after-school events, and all kinds of other emissions-creating activities that are part of your everyday life.

Global Warming: Investment Implications -- Seeking Alpha

To people who say they “know” that climate change will be catastrophic and who “know” that reducing one variable, man’s output of carbon, is primarily responsible for this upcoming catastrophe, and say they “know” what the world will look like in 50 years if we don’t spend all our resources to change this horrid and fearsome outcome, I say: they’re full of hooey.