Wednesday, September 30, 2009

United States Chamber of Commerce: Putting it in perspective
• Current membership: 3,000,000 businesses (via its Federation of local chambers and association members. Actual direct membership is several tens of thousands.)
• Number of state and local chambers: 2,800
• Number of business associations: 830
• Number of companies that have left: 4
Seeing Red On Cap And Trade - Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship - Forbes.com
"I don't know how we let the enviros and the humanitarians off the hook, that they continue to stymie the development of other countries," he says. "You've got people dying of preventable disease every day, and yet we're getting ready to spend billions of dollars on climate change."
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I think it's all a hoax and a Ponzi scheme. I can't find any logic to the fact that the climate is actually changing any more because of man than it would without man. More so, though, the math simply doesn't work. If you did away with the entire U.S. carbon emissions, the Chinese and the Asian community would replace it in just about three years.
Election 2010: Arkansas Senate Race - Rasmussen Reports™
Another Democratic senator may be at-risk in 2010. Arkansas' Blanche Lambert Lincoln trails all four of her leading Republican challengers in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey in the state.
How the New Senate Ag Chair (Blanche Lincoln) Changes America’s Energy Policy
Lincoln is also likely to affect the climate debate. The Ag Committee has some jurisdiction over climate change legislation, and Lincoln’s vote on cap-and-trade is a priority for her caucus leadership, which is having a tough time finding support for a climate bill among Senate Democrats. But Arkansas politics are decidedly unfavorable to global warming alarmism.

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