Obama's EPA sells climate 'handicap-and-trade'

Because there are no carbon-neutral or renewable replacements for the CO2 sources EPA will now regulate, the actual long-term business destruction, job losses, trade distortions and consumer costs of cap-and-trade cannot be known. Without controls on larger global CO2 emitters, such as China, India, Russia, etc., the U.S. carbon controls will handicap our economy during recession for nothing more than gratuitous green symbolism. Maybe EPA should call it “handicap-and-trade.”  [Via Skeptic's Corner]

Atte Korhola: scientific and social playground « Climate Audit

[translation] I put immediately forward a thesis that I'm glad to expose to public criticism: when later generations learn about climate science, they will classify the beginning of 21st century as an embarrassing chapter in history of science. They will wonder our time, and use it as a warning of how the core values and criteria of science were allowed little by little to be forgotten as the actual research topic — climate change — turned into a political and social playground.

Twitter / UniversityofPhoenix: [Or maybe older people tend to be less naive, having seen more scams come and go]

Governor Kulongoski, Oregon: Young people accept the facts of climate change. Elders who resist do not understand impacts of climate change.

[Are we all comfortable with climate swindle votes being bought with our own money?] - St. Petersburg Times

This spring Grayson played tough with President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by holding up his vote for a global-warming bill until he was promised a $50 million hurricane research center that some in Central Florida say is wasteful, a brazen move for any lawmaker, let alone a rookie.