Texas: Cap and Trade Bill Lawmakers' Topic Monday

Cap and trade, he said, was based on the false premise of global warming, and was designed to generate money for health care reforms.

"The bill is a tax bill, to raise revenue for the federal government," [Ted Poe, R-Humble] said. "The $880 billion it was to raise was to be used as a downpayment on the health care bill."

Does Bob McDonnell Believe in Global Warming? - Virginia Politics -

McCain said during last year's presidential race that global warming needs to be taken seriously and today, while standing next to McDonnell, he said that reducing carbon emissions should be a goal no matter whether people accept or reject climate change as fact.
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"Prominent Republicans such as John Warner, Lindsay Graham and even John McCain have said that climate change is a scientific fact [as if that proves anything],'' Deeds's campaign manager Joe Abbey wrote in a press release this afternoon. "But when asked what he believed, Bob McDonnell couldn't form a coherent answer. Either that's because he knows that he and the rest of the Republican ticket are far outside the mainstream on this issue, or because Bob McDonnell's real position is 'say anything to get elected.'"

Thatcher adviser: Copenhagen goal is 1-world government

A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government.

"At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed," Monckton told a Minnesota Free Market Institute audience on Thursday at Bethel University in St. Paul.

[Iowa Farm Bureau blows $3 million on climate swindle]: The Des Moines Register

"The price doesn't look real attractive right now, so there haven't been a lot of folks interested in new contracts," said Liz Mathern, a program specialist.

The credits were trading for $2 a ton on the Chicago exchange in March. But the price has dropped to 10 cents or less, not enough to cover the transaction costs of trading the credits.
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The Iowa Farm Bureau invested about $3 million in AgraGate with the idea that credits' value would be high enough to cover the costs of pooling, and verifying, he said.