The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia - Ready for this?

Go ahead and let the Obama administration pressure Congress into passing cap-and-trade legislation to combat so-called global warming at a time when frost warnings were issued for a number of West Virginia counties just a week after summer officially ended.
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Without coal, what does the country have as an energy source? Wind? Solar? The tooth fairy?

Can lean times also be green times? -- latimes.com

The decline in support for the global warming effort in California was largely partisan [except that it dropped for BOTH parties]. Democratic support dropped only from 83% to 78%. Among Republicans, however, support dropped from 57% to 43%. It is "a much more partisan context now," Baldassare said.

Both environmentalists and the governor are trying to wrench the issue out of the partisan maelstrom, however unlikely that is. Part of their difficulty is the economy itself. Unemployment in California is in the double digits, far more than double what it was when the global warming bill was signed. So environmentalists and the governor are having to argue that things would have been even worse if not for green jobs.

[People from France, Germany, Brazil and Australia take fossil-fueled trips to Canada to protest fossil fuels]

Meanwhile, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach slammed the protest Saturday, vowing to do what he can to prevent reoccurrences and to ensure that trespassers are punished to the full extent of the law.

“Most of these protesters are from outside the country of Canada. They are really tourists telling us how we should develop our resources,” the irate premier told reporters at the West Edmonton Mall.
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“Very, very few people outside of Canada were aware of the tarsands before Greenpeace began protesting them,” [Christopher Daley] said. By bringing in a group from France, Germany, Brazil and Australia, he said they hope to create anti-oilsands sentiment in those countries ahead of the Copenhagen talks.