Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Opponents to climate [swindle] dominate Austin hearing
AUSTIN—Scores of Texas politicians, regulators and industry representatives took aim today at proposed federal legislation to combat climate change, saying the bill would cripple the state's economy.

The proposed bill would “make every product that uses energy more expensive, forcing hard-working Texans to bear substantial new costs, and kicking a hole in our state's economic strength,” Gov. Rick Perry said.
PrenticeWatch: Ten feet from the podium? Canada’s back again!
The Toronto Star’s Mitch Potter managed to catch up with Canada’s curiously elusive environment minister as he went about his full-message-heft-absorbing duties:
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Obama claims the US did nothing on emissions before 2009
Barack Obama spoke to the UN this morning on the topic of climate change, in part to take credit for pushing the US towards the state-run energy paradigm that Europe has begun to regret. After the obligatory “no one before us had the wisdom to think we could change the weather” opening, Obama makes a couple of odd — and eminently refutable — claims about his presidency:

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