Climate [hoax] cash could create Copenhagen stimulus | Industry Summits | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Climate talks could draw on global recovery spending to smooth a deal in Copenhagen in December to replace the Kyoto Protocol, said Nick Robins, head of HSBC's climate change research center.

HSBC analysts estimate the green portion of a $3.1 trillion fiscal stimulus at about $512 billion.

Those funds to boost renewable energy, efficiency, public transport and water treatment so far exclusively focus on domestic economies and jobs, but could be turned to the aid of faltering U.N. talks meant to agree a new climate treaty.

Waxman-Markey: Benefits Far Outweigh Costs, New Study Finds - Environmental Capital - WSJ

“A large portion of benefits might not be felt directly or immediately within U.S. borders,” the paper notes, suggesting that U.S. voters think of it as a “highly effective, highly leveraged form of foreign aid.”

How liberals are hurting Barack Obama | Democracy in America | Economist.com

Like it or not, liberalism is the ideology of the big cities. When liberal interest-groups mock conservatives, they often sound like Noel Coward characters making fun of the rubes.