Great Lakes shippers decry plan to curb air pollution | StarTribune.com

Oberstar is working hard for exemptions, saying hundreds of jobs are at risk.

Flashback: Oberstar Votes to Fight Global Warming

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 2454, the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009”.

This bill seeks to promote clean energy use and reduce carbon emissions in the United States. The legislation will create millions of new clean energy jobs, enhance America’s energy independence, and protect the environment.

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In my mind, the green jobs mantra is a result of the CO2 abatement case becoming fatally weak, with supporters of legislation casting about for other justifications. From the very beginning, many of the most passionate folks are on the AGW bandwagon not because they really understand the science, but because the theory provided justification for a range of government actions (reduced growth, limited technology, reduced energy use, reduction in global trade — even vegetarianism) that they supported long before AGW made the news.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Journalists - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

A quick note about the risible effort by the AP’s Seth Borenstein to push back against the traction gained among the public by the observed reality of a temperature plateau — recognized last year by none other than IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri. (Remember that?) The IPCC’s “chief climate scientist” is in fact an economist, of course, so surely he has had substantial training in statistics, no?