Passengers face new tax to halt rise in air travel - Times Online

Tens of billions of pounds will have to be raised through flight taxes to compensate developing countries for the damage air travel does to the environment, according to the Government’s advisory body on climate change.

American Thinker: Czar Dish

Since it appears Congress is yet unwilling to insist on the preservation of its Constitutional prerogatives and the White House unlikely to change course on its own, I take it it's up to what we call the alternative media to keep plodding ahead and picking off by one by one those Czars who are manifestly unsuitable for these posts.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: What Dieter Helm Thinks About EU Climate Polcieis

So why has the EU not taken seriously the China/India/coal problem? The answer is that there appears not to be the political will to do what would be implied: not only to make much larger cuts in EU carbon production, but also to make the large financial and technology transfers to the developed countries. On the contrary, the EU has been lulled into the false assumption that tackling global warming is cheap.

Is Government Action Worse than Global Warming?: Why policy nihilism may be the only rational response to climate change - Reason Magazine

Man-made global warming may simply be a negative externality for which the transaction costs are too high. In other words, any benefits achieved from trying to mitigate global warming will most likely be swamped by the costs of distributing the corporate welfare used to buy the political acquiescence of various industries. As much as one might hope to implement good public policy to deal with the problem, policy nihilism might be the only rational response to global warming.