Will Greens Drop Blue Or Go Yellow?

As cap and trade gets pushed back further and further into next year (or not at all), the blue-green alliance will be strained greatly. So it will be interesting to see if the Greens stand up for their beliefs or meekly go along with unions.

Jake Colvin: Obama vs. Krugman: Five Reasons the President's Right on Carbon Tariffs

Mr. Krugman has become a proponent of carbon tariffs, also known as "border adjustment measures," which would tax imports into the United States from countries which have not taken sufficient steps to combat climate change. In his most recent New York Times blog post, he writes that President Obama is "getting it wrong" by expressing skepticism of carbon tariffs and that French President Sarkozy is "entirely reasonable on the subject."

Wow: Treasury says Cap and Trade to cost $100-200 Billion in new taxes

Well, we knew all along that the debate over the cost was not really a debate at all. It was one side who knew for a fact what the thing was, and the other side was lying through their teeth trying to control every industry in the country in the name of a hoax. The beautiful thing about it is that it is Obama's own Treasury Department who came up with the numbers.

Minnesota | Farmers hope for no early frost

Brad Nelson described the season as unusual.

“It’s been one of the most unusual growing seasons I’ve ever experienced in the fact that it’s been cool and dry. We’ve had it be cool and wet before but not cool and dry,” said Nelson, who grows corn and soybeans along Interstate 35 north of Albert Lea.

Goshen College [President really needs to spend some time reading Climate Depot]

GOSHEN, Ind. – President James E. Brenneman has finalized Goshen College's Climate Action Plan and submitted it to the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). The plan documents the college's commitment to reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions and outlines initiatives designed to achieve an overall goal of climate neutrality as well as a set of steps that will teach students the skills they will need to help society do the same.

"Climate change presents us with a societal emergency and a moral imperative for innovation," said President Brenneman.