Britain could make £10bn a year [from insane plan to store harmless] CO2 under North Sea - Times Online

The North Sea will provide Britain with a natural resource worth as much as £10 billion a year if the Government exploits it as a store for carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from power stations, scientists said today.

So Can We Cool It With The Global Warming Nonsense Yet?

In case you don't have a sense for how much surface area half a million square kilometers is, think Texas. So after a cycle that saw a reducing ice sheet until 2006 or so, it appears that the Arctic is actually expanding again, so much so that the UN Secretary-General couldn't reach closer than 700 miles to the North Pole because the expanding ice sheet was too treacherous to traverse.

That much expansion seems quite alarming to me. Look at the explosion in the polar bear population that's going to lead to. Look at the smaller environment the fish and sealife are going to have available to them with the oceans decreasing in size. I see only one solution to combat this new cooling trend. Gentlemen (and Ladies), Start Your Engines!

JustOneMinute: No Loony Lefty Left Behind

They loved him and left him - Firedoglake founder Jane Hamsher excoriates the cut-and-run liberals who loved Green Czar Van Jones when he was up but abandoned him in his moment of trial. I especially like her "He wasn't any crazier than the rest of us" defense...

Clouds on liberals’ horizon | Cal Thomas | Sep 8, 2009

The cap-and-trade measure (dubbed “cap and tax” by the Wall Street Journal) appears in trouble. Closer scrutiny has revealed it as one more reach into our pockets by politicians who never have enough of our money.

[Cap and tax shelved in Korea]

The government also seems to know the seriousness of the matter ― only in words not in actions. It's been some time since the Lee Myung-bak administration called for moving toward low-carbon, green growth, and they created a comprehensive policy package. The proposed introduction of a carbon tax and a cap and trade on emissions, however, was immediately shelved in the face of strong corporate opposition.

CNSNews.com - Global ‘Ecological Board of Directors’ Envisioned by State Department’s Climate Czar

According to Stern, the new E8 would hold annual summits attended by the leaders of the member-states, just like those held by the G8. This would create, in Stern’s words, “an ecological board of directors able to operate outside the bureaucracy and politics of large UN conventions.”

The future climate czar also emphasized the need to put major environmental decisions in the hands of a small group of people rather than a gathering of all nations.