Jeff McMahon - Scorched Earth – On climate change, Republicans shift from obstructing to moving backwards - True/Slant

The GOP obstructs efforts to combat climate change by raising the short-term prospect of taxes to distract Americans from the long-term prospect of climate change. But what effect will a regressive platform have on the GOP when it contradicts science and promises to cast the Republican Party as the one that fiddled while the world burned?

Can voters be scared into turning against programs that are already underway? As ugly as yesterday was, can it be yesterday again?

Has Obama Given Up on Global Warming Treaty? -- Politics Daily

Realism may dictate downplaying expectations for a meaningful treaty in Copenhagen. But at some point, Obama is going to have to say whether a treaty with hard-and-fast reductions remains a tangible goal. The challenge for the administration will be sidestepping away from this easy-to-understand aim without sending the message that its passion for combating global warming is no longer that hot.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan factors in climate change [fraud]

"Climate change is a reality. The debate is over," [Tom Strickland, assistant secretary of the interior for fish, wildlife and parks] said in a teleconference to release the strategic plan for climate change.

Cap and trade a roadmap to disaster - The Sudbury Star - Ontario, CA

Have you ever had that nightmare where you're being chased by a monster and yet your legs feel like lead and you can't get away?

That's how I feel every time Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty start babbling about the joys of dragging us into a global cap-and-trade market, supposedly to lower man-made carbon dioxide emissions.

YouTube - [Climate Realism] - Persuasive Speech - Daniel Sauble