YID With LID: Cap and Trade Bill is a Gift For Special Interests

This whole cap and tax plan being pushed by the President and written by Congressman Waxman is being ghost written by lobbyists. That promise that then President-Elect Obama made at the beginning of his administration that their would be no lobbyist influence on his presidency was just a "Media Moment".

Krugman on Waxman-Markey’s Cost: We Hope His Readers Can’t Multiply — MasterResource

True to form, Krugman accuses those who disagree with him of abject stupidity and evil intent; for Krugman it is impossible that any decent economist who cares about human beings could actually think the costs of cap-and-trade legislation will be high. But as we’ll see, Krugman’s own figures don’t jibe with the narrative he’s pushing.

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Why is it that Climate Change Skeptics make up 10% of population but over 50% of airtime/column space?

A tale of tree rings, global warming and Fangorn's Ents

The sarcastic and insulting reply from Real Climate included a number of charts showing hockey sticks developed by other members of the team using the same suspect analysis and the same hidden data sets as if that would prove McIntyre wrong. What it proved was how important--and how threatening--McIntyre's analysis must look to these scientists, who have served as each other's co-authors and peer reviewers for over a decade.

Evidence of coal fired power stations in Antarctica 15 million years ago?

If natural events have been shown to produce a big warmup, why should we assume that the minute warming of the last century is somehow different? It's just an assertion to say so, a statement of faith rather than fact