Cap-and-Trade Memos Fire Up the Skeptics - washingtonpost.com

"Even if a 100 percent auction was a live legislative proposal, which it's not, that math ignores the redistribution of revenue back to consumers," said Tony Kreindler, spokesman for the Environmental Defense Fund. "It only looks at one side of the balance sheet. It would only be true if you think the administration was going to pile all the cash on the White House lawn and set it on fire."

[After you've already "distributed" more than 100% of the allowances, how much cash is left for consumers?]

In the early years, most of the allowances will be given away. Perhaps one result of the ill-conceived last-minute changes is that for some years there are promises to distribute more than 100 percent of the available allowances to various interest groups.

Climate Observations: Record Sea Surface Temperatures Are Only In NOAA ERSST.v3b Dataset

It appears that the methods used by NOAA to calculate Global SST in their ERSST.v3b dataset and the removal of the satellite data from those calculations created an upward bias.

Here's where the lead scientist on California air board study justifying costly new diesel rules got his degree...

So what if its lead scientist got his degree at the "campus" above. UPS, USC, UCLA, UCSD -- really, who can tell the difference?

NASA to Push Environmental Goals - WSJ.com

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's No. 2 official on Wednesday vowed to provide taxpayers "better value" by focusing on environmental goals and promoting science education.