Sen Brown: Mfg State Sens Want Non-Compliance Tariff In Climate Bill - WSJ.com

Brown also had tough words for General Electric Co. (GE) and its position on tariffs.

"Companies that have already outsourced so much production to the developing world don't want any trade rules to stop them from selling things back into the United States," Brown said. "GE is a great American company. They've done great things for our country, but they have a lot of production in China, and this bill is not written for GE. This bill is written to deal with climate change and it's written as a jobs bill."

The Kyoto foundation stone for a future agreement crumbles away

According to The Guardian, the US is insisting on a completely new agreement, in which all countries are free to choose and set their own targets and timetable and agree that they should be measured and verified by outside experts.

[By the way, the post above includes a picture of a Bangladeshi woman struggling in chest-deep water. Was this situation really caused by CO2 escaping from Diet Cokes opened by Obama administration officials?]

Several senior Administration officials are committed cola drinkers, and without fail they spend their days sipping from a can of Diet Coke, a product of Pepsi's chief competitor, Coca-Cola.