Today’s Calamity: Understanding Climate Change » The Foundry

If cap and trade is meant to solve our climate crisis, why does the bill include funding to understand climate change?

Australians Balk at Cap-and-Trade Costs - WSJ.com

Australians have figured out how much cap-and-trade will cost, and they don't like it."

YouTube - The Business of Global Warming [Fraud]

Al Gore and Jeff Immelt on early action global warming and the business response

Death by a thousand 'green' cuts

Banning cars outright is what the environmentalists want, but people would oppose it too strongly so instead we get death by a thousand cuts, with anti-idling laws and bans on drive-thrus being just the beginning. Many seniors, physically impaired people and those with small children depend on their cars (and drive-through services of all kinds) for safety, comfort and convenience, and just because some people mistakenly believe that modern car emissions are affecting the climate is no reason for them to have to give that up. Regulating traffic flow to ease congestion makes sense, banning drive-thrus because of some perceived threat to the planet does not.

[Lubchenco compares climate realism to smoking, drunk driving, racism, etc]

Jane Lubchenco, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, picked up on Gore’s reference to tipping points.

“We’ve seen major 180-degree shifts in people’s attitudes toward things that for a long time to many seemed impossible: attitudes toward smoking, attitudes toward drunk driving, civil rights, women’s suffrage, are a few examples,” Lubchenco said. “I believe there’s very good evidence that you can be making significant progress toward meaningful change without that progress being obvious. And then you hit the tipping point and things can change very rapidly.”