Europe’s Disastrous Climate Policy – a Lesson for Congress | CEI

The study, The Expensive Failure of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, documents the massive costs imposed by the scheme and the highly volatile nature of the trading mechanism which was supposed to regulate allocation of emissions permits across the continent. The report further details how policymakers in the UK have not only ignored the scheme’s substantial flaws, but have at times adopted policies that have actually increased the burden born by British consumers and taxpayers.

“The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme has cost families across Europe tens of billions of dollars but it has been a goldmine for energy companies, which have made huge windfall profits,” said TaxPayers’ Alliance Research Director and study author Matthew Sinclair. “Despite that, it has failed to produce a stable carbon price, leaving consumers with an unpredictable addition to their bills.

The Reference Frame: Post-socialist Europe still against global climate communism

...Still, I managed to say quite a lot about the IPCC, the differences between the Western and Eastern Europe (West is more enthusiastic because it has spare money to waste for nonsense, and it is not immune against utopias for the future - because of the lack of experience with communism), the actual issues that are important for Africa, and other things.

C3: Multiple Peer-Reviewed Studies Confirm That Severe Flooding Has Not Increased Despite Warming Alarmist Claims

Read here. Climate alarmist scientists and zealots have predicted that "unprecedented" warming in 20th century has caused increased severe flooding. Multiple studies were conducted for the European region and the scientific consensus is that severe flooding has not increased.

Sen. Inhofe offers heresy in a PC world

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe stands out like a heretic in a world in which political correctness has become its own religion. One of the chief tenets of this new faith is that manmade global warming will be the ruination of us all. Inhofe is on a one man crusade to debunk the idea.

CO2’s Political Fingerprint » The Foundry

Unless they had explicitly named them, the Senate’s Kerry-Boxer and the House’s Waxman-Markey global warming bills could not have been better designed to inflict more pain on the states that swung red in the last election than on those that went blue. The American Clean Energy and Security Act in the Senate and House’s Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act both call for dramatic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, eventually 83%. (Isn’t it curious that neither bill is titled after the impending global warming catastrophe that they are supposedly designed to avert?)