Fight global warming, get $1,100 a year - Dec. 30, 2009

Allowing trading in carbon credits enables businesses to monetize those credits, in effect creating wealth, Kevin Book, a managing director at ClearView Energy Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that tracks political developments in the energy sector, said in an analysis of the bill.

[Cap-and-dividend] would transfer wealth within the economy, whereas [cap-and-trade] would inject $1 trillion of wealth into the economy," said Book.

Dems: 2010 election more important than death of Earth, which is where humans live - John Knefel - Making a Mockery - True/Slant

In what may be the greatest single example of misplaced priorities since I ran in front of a moving van to pick up a nickel, congressional Democrats are pressuring their leaders to drop any legislation aimed at curbing the upcoming WeatherPocalypse before the 2010 elections.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Eight reasons why Dems will lose the House in 2010

If Democrats manage to hang onto a slim majority, the big question will be whether Pelosi hangs onto the gavel. She more than anyone else has authored the radical push from Democrats and the go-it-alone attitude that has marginalized them and angered the moderates. I’d bet that if Democrats wind up with a majority of five seats or less, Pelosi gets canned in favor of Steny Hoyer and a more open model of working with Republicans to spread the responsibility in the 112th Congress. It would be better to have a Republican in that position instead, of course.

Remove politicians from climate debate - Paradise Post

Real politicians should stay away from science and let research take its course. Science and the people that developed information they claim proves human beings are responsible for the warming that took place between the early 1990s and the early part of this century need to sit down together in a public forum and let us all know how they developed their conclusions.

We don't need a "rush to judgment," when it could produce the worst legislation to be passed in this century.

Climate Change Fraud - Six Georgia Congressmen Challenge Greenhouse Regulations

Six Republican congressmen from Georgia have signed onto an Atlanta-based organization's legal challenge of a federal announcement that could lead to government regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.

FuturePundit: Global Warming Won't Prevent Ice Age

Writing in Technology Review Duke University prof Franklin Hadley Cocks says even if a worst case scenario for global warming happens in a couple thousand years we'll be headed into the next Ice Age.
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I would prefer we didn't burn up all the limited supply of fossil fuels now so that we could burn them later when we really need to heat up the planet.

Can we convince the public to freeze in the dark now, so that future people might not be too cold? Remember, we've been advised repeatedly to freeze in the dark now, so that future people won't be too warm.