Rudd changes tune on climate bill - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

For months Mr Rudd has been saying the Senate needs to pass the emissions trading bill before December's Copenhagen meeting on climate change.

But today on CNN the Prime Minister changed his tune.

New poll: Majority believe government is doing too much | Washington Examiner

The last time the number of people who believe government is doing too much hit 57 percent was in October 1994, shortly before voters threw Democrats out of power in both the House and Senate. It continued to rise after that, hitting 60 percent in December 1995, before settling down in the later Clinton and Bush years.

Is Lieberman at it again? - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

In an effort to resuscitate some version of the House climate change [fraud] bill in the Senate, the Connecticut independent is trying to get Republicans and moderate Democrats on board by adding money for coal power and nuclear plants — changes that would infuriate many of the bill’s liberal supporters.

Alternatives Are Simply Too Expensive - WSJ.com

Carbon dioxide, however, is the result of complete fuel combustion. Apart from still-unproven technologies, there's no way to remove it from the process. The only way to reduce emissions is to burn less fuel, which means less energy output.
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Energy is not like other goods that can be substituted or done without. It has rightly been called the master resource, because it is fundamental to everything else in the economy. There are no examples of a nation that grew wealthy on expensive energy.