Investors.com - Cap-And-Fade

Climate Change: The Senate has finally rolled out its long-awaited cap-and-trade bill to slash carbon dioxide. Looking at its draconian restrictions on the U.S. economy, it's hard to believe its supporters are serious.
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As Stanford engineering professor Stephen Schneider, a leading cap-and-trade advocate, recently noted: "We're betting the planet. There's no such thing as a safe level" of CO2. Earth to Schneider: CO2 is a byproduct of human respiration. And plants use CO2 to create oxygen for our planet. "No safe level"? That's insane.

Boxer, Kerry Launch Campaign to Pass Senate Cap-And-Trade Bill - NYTimes.com

According to an E&E analysis of the Senate, Boxer and Kerry can count on about 45 "yes" or "probably yes" votes as they move forward.
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There are 21 "fence sitters" pivotal to passing the bill.

The Reference Frame: Mitchell Taylor, polar bears, and AGW exile

A simple calculation reveals that it's about USD 250 million to save polar bears. I can give you analogous stories with analogous numbers, describing the price of "subsidized" meat that they may require every year. After all, it may be a good idea to feed them so that they don't kill so many precious baby seals. You know, if the civilization wants to save the polar bears, it's a pretty cheap task. The details of my project to do so are not yet optimal - it's a fast idea - but the conclusion that it would be relatively cheap is robust.

The point is that the polar bears are being used as an argument to pay tens of trillions of dollars in the decades to come. That's about 100,000 (one-hundred-thousand) times bigger an amount of money! You don't have to be cooling down a whole planet (moreover, using a very inefficient, CO2 greenhouse effect) in order to protect a few thousand animals from drowning or temporary hunger.

Clearly, someone is not thinking rationally here.

Kerry-Boxer: 10% Unemployment Is Just The Beginning » The Foundry

Kerry-Boxer: 20% less carbon and 10% unemployment through 2020!