Carbon tax ‘stage act’ could well collapse

Why should power stations be taxed for CO2 emissions but not the camel cullers or, for that matter, beer brewers, who induce CO2 production in the beer fermentation process? The whole carbon tax stage act seems such a contrived act that I have the feeling that it could well collapse. Let us see what happens at the carbon tax bunfight scheduled for Copenhagen, in December.

Obama Factor Plays to Tarnished Senator’s Advantage - NYTimes.com

It is difficult to overstate President Obama’s unpopularity in most of Louisiana. He lost handily to Senator John McCain here, picking up only 14 percent of the white vote (the state is roughly two-thirds white). His health care plan is unpopular. His cap-and-trade plan to reduce greenhouse gases, in a state so dependent on oil and gas, is anathema.

EU Proposes Global Wealth Redistribution

If $2 to $15 billion a year may be considered merely a “tip,” one may question what “bill” organizations such as Greenpeace-EU would like to see thrown at the European Union — and, in time, the United States. The bidding up of the price of imposing the environmentalist ideology on the entire world has only begun; one can scarcely imagine where it will be by the time of December’s conference in Copenhagen.

Thermageddon? Postponed! • The Register

But even the basics are fiercely contested. Does a warmer climate mean more or fewer clouds, and do these trap even more heat, or act as a sunshade, cooling it back down again? Clouds are so poorly understood, you can take your pick. So if the climate isn't getting warmer, the theory requires the view that the energy must be "hiding" somewhere, mostly likely in oceanic heat sinks.

But neither the feedbacks, nor the oceans, are currently being kind to contemporary climate theory

Investor's Business Daily -- How Wishful Thinkers Are Forced To Reconnect With Energy Reality

As we have seen, however, national leaders will ultimately refuse to impoverish their industries even to "save the planet." The still-"disconnected" flower-power generation and its idealistic offspring would do well to grasp that the energy future is not green. It is hydrocarbon, and will continue to be for another century at least.