Cold, wet summer affects Missouri crop quality - Columbia Missourian

JEFFERSON CITY — Tomatoes will be a little less tasty this year thanks to a cold, wet mid-Missouri summer.
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Low temperatures have also wreaked havoc on another major Missouri crop, corn, which has had its harvest date delayed as a result of the cooler summer.

"If it doesn't get to 86 degrees, the corn doesn't mature very fast," Reinbott said. "There just haven't been enough days this summer where the temperature has exceeded that."

Pence, GOP leaders, hold climate-change seminar

"The Democrats' climate change bill is nothing more than an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals in Washington, D.C., and must be opposed," Pence said after the summit.

The WSJ Thinks We Can Tax Our Way to Prosperity? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The "social cost" of carbon estimates all depend on climate sensitivity assumptions proven wrong by observations and taken apart in a new paper by Lindzen and Choi.

The paper appears to assume that every ton of CO2 reduced by Waxman-Markey is a ton reduced globally — as if capital, jobs, and emissions could not migrate from the United States to other parts of the world. Europe's experience with emissions trading has shown that's not how the real world works: Witness EU steel jobs now in Kentucky, Alabama, and — on tap, but apparently now on hold — Louisiana. Not to mention China, Brazil, India, Malaysia (where the Kentucky jobs are likely to head if we pass Waxman-Markey, I'm told).

Boucher Opposes Bill He Supported, Calls Opponents ‘Cowards’ - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Nope. Courageous Rick Boucher merely kept himself in the debate by providing a crucial vote to ram a partisan bill through — one he didn't like but, after passing it, promises to fix it in conference . . . one of Washington's least credible assertions, thanks to the ravages of practical experience.
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Now, back to you Washington types and your silly aphorisms dripping with treacle like "if you're not at the table, you're on the menu." If you're on the menu you're on the menu. And cynical politicians like Rep. Boucher are doing the carving, even if they tell you haw bad they feel about it while sharpening the knife.