Coal Executive Slams Climate Science - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Blankenship also criticized some other coal mining executives — though not by name — who he said privately express doubts about climate change science, but keep those thoughts to themselves.

“There is a lot of political correctness and a lot of fear,” he said.

Emission Traders Oppose U.S. Limits on Carbon Credit Imports - Bloomberg.com

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Limiting the number of cheap carbon credits that can be imported from poor countries in a proposed U.S. “cap-and-trade” system will drive up costs for consumers, an emissions trading group said.

Cow (or the Bus if you will) is Already Out of Barn for Mark Kirk | Chicago Daily Observer

Mark Kirk was cute enough to vote for Cap and Trade* in one of the closest votes in the House of Representative. He voted to move forward one of the most dangerous and foot-stompingly idiotic pieces of General Electric legislation to come down the pike in decades. Now, Kirk is trying to parse and weasel his way out of the vote that he expected to be rewarded with kind words on MSNBC and in Huffington Post. Mark Kirk and the Illinois GOP want to make an issue of the ACORN and SEIU synergy – that is all to the good – but having a steer like Mark Kirk try to mooooo- hooo from his self made dung pile is really too laughable.

Miranda Devine on Malcolm Turnbull

But the fact is that you can articulate a position on climate change that does not dispute man's contribution without buying into a complicated ETS, which benefits global financiers but has doubtful value for the environment. You don't have to be a climate sceptic to oppose a new stealth tax on Australians before we even know what the rest of the world plans.