Copenhagen Conference – Another Day of Infamy?

A coalition that is American based is also determined to undermine our position and commit us to the fallacies and untruths of the global warming hoax which will bring devastating new taxes and crippling regulations.

Letters: 'Cap and trade is a toxin' | argusleader.com | Argus Leader

It's been a remarkably contentious few months in our nation's capital. But one thing is clear from the flurry of bills, amendments and stump speeches on climate change: Cap and trade will fail Americans, especially in the lower and middle classes, and bring higher fuel costs across the board.

D-day looms for Turnbull, ETS

With just three more sitting days to pass the legislation, Mr Rudd turned up the heat on Mr Turnbull, saying any negotiated deal would be on the table for this week only.

"We must get this deal done this week," he told parliament.

This week marked the culmination of decades worth of climate change science, 10 years worth of work on a cap and trade scheme and two years on emissions trading, he said.

Conrad Black on National Review Online

The proposed cap-and-trade bill to reduce carbon emissions would pile increased heating and air-conditioning costs on homeowners and employers, but would neither reduce emissions nor raise government revenues. The whole program is based on the unproved eco-terror arguments that have made Al Gore a Nobel Prize laureate centimillionaire, and the bill is ill-conceived if not insane.