WAR IS SWELL | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

...A climate change war! This sounds like the finest lark in combat history. But war is hell even when it involves global warming activists, as this computer model of one soldier’s future war diary accurately predicts:

3/7/12: These solar-powered armoured personnel carriers don’t seem very mobile after sundown. We lost another 14 overnight to enemy attacks. Maybe the wind chimes are giving away our position.

YouTube - MO Says NO to Cap-And-Trade

The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives presents more than 30,000 postcards by Missouri co-op customers asking Senator Bond to oppose cap-and-trade legislation. The House-passed cap-and-trade bill that the Senate is now considering threatens to raise energy prices for Missouri families, farmers and workers.

Show Me No Skyrockets - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Note the Post-Dispatch's typical sneering detachedness, "The argument from Bond and his allies goes something like this: The Midwest, which relies heavily on coal, would suffer a disproportionate burden from the climate-change legislation passed by the House." Of course, that curious argument from Bond also happens to have been candidate Obama's express objective for the scheme.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Politics Trumping Policy in the U.S. Emissions Bill

No one should be surprised if rates of decarbonization are not substantially influenced by the legislation, if it ever passes, which right now looks questionable.