Senate offers some hope for legislation to combat climate change - washingtonpost.com

The president himself seemed to admit at least temporary defeat last week; at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Mr. Obama cited speculations that the Senate might pass only a modest energy bill. Such a bill inevitably would contain expensive subsidies and research programs, but it would not place a price on carbon.

Putting a price on the burning of oil, gas and coal is the most efficient way to limit American greenhouse emissions, but Mr. Obama -- though he supports the idea -- didn't even mention carbon pricing when he discussed energy with reporters on Tuesday.

Why the "Green Police" Is So San Francisco | NBC Bay Area

The locally conceived advertisement was enough to get Newsom, who has pushed for the type of recycling and composting mandates that give the spot its believably authoritarian edge, was moved to tweet, "Ok .. That "green police" Audi commercial hits home."

Ezra Klein - Sen. Lamar Alexander weighs in

Well, the four steps that we suggest actually help us reach the Kyoto goals for the year 2030. Step 1 was double nuclear power production. Two is offshore exploration of natural gas. Three is make half our cars and trucks electric in 20 years. And finally doubling energy R&D spending to make solar costs competitive. By our computation, we’d actually get where we want to go.

Climate Common Sense: Rudd Government Proceeds with Carbon Auction Plans For Dead Scheme

Rudd is in denial and seems not to understand that the ETS is dead. Proceeding with setting up an auction scheme for a system rejected by Parliament is a complete waste of money . With support for the Global Warming doomsday scenario waning rapidly he should read the writing on the wall set his bureaucrats to doing something useful in theNational Debt reduction area!

Blogging the Snowpocalypse - Megan McArdle

I understand that it doesn't necessarily make sense for DC to maintain plentiful snow moving equipment, when these types of heavy snowfalls only occur about once every seven years. But it seems to me we could try to maintain some psychological readiness. If this is how we react to a snow storm, what are we going to do when the Russkis invade?