Carroll: Salazar voted to save jobs - The Denver Post

Nowhere in a TV ad targeting Congressman John Salazar will you hear the words "climate change" or "global warming." Nowhere does it mention the phrase "cap and trade" when it blasts the 3rd District Democrat for voting against the so-called American Clean Energy and Security Act earlier this year.

Somehow the League of Conservation Voters, which paid for the ad, forgot to acknowledge the main purpose of the legislation. Instead, the league pretends that Salazar voted against a jobs-creation measure.

GOP candidates find friendly crowd at fair | Wichita News - Kansas News

Brownback, Tiahrt and Moran also were unanimous in their opposition to the proposed cap-and-trade system proposed as a way to limit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas linked to global climate change. The proposal would require industries to buy credits if they want to exceed limits on emissions.

Moran drew laughs when he answered a listener who asked how anyone in their right mind could support cap and trade.

"Because there aren't enough people with right minds in Washington, D.C.," he said, adding that he believes cap and trade would transfer wealth from sparsely populated states like Kansas, where energy use per person is higher, to the east and west coasts, where populations are more dense and travel distances are smaller.

Tiahrt said he believes solar activity, not human activity, is the primary driver of global climate change. Calls to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are "based on political science, not hard science," he said.

"We don't need the government to tell us what to set our thermostats at," he said.

Most people in the crowd agreed.

Bernard Schoenburg: Shimkus’ walkout could fire up Dems - Springfield, IL

Shimkus, you may know, has a severe dislike of the cap-and-trade idea to limit fossil fuel emissions.

One of those who had fun with Shimkus about CO2 was MSNBC host RACHEL MADDOW, who took on Shimkus for saying there was a lot more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere during the age of dinosaurs.

“Also,” Maddow said at the time, “the dodo bird ate plenty of cholesterol, and the saber-toothed tiger never even flossed. Stop worrying, people.”