AARP prefers Cantwell-Collins climate [swindle] bill - The Hill's E2-Wire

AARP had expressed concern that House-passed climate legislation, which uses an economy-wide cap-and-trade system to cut emissions, didn’t provide enough protections to consumers.

Chanel muses on global cooling with iceberg show

While British designer Vivienne Westwood regularly rails against global warming, fashion king Karl Lagerfeld trumped her with a rival theory at the Chanel show on Monday: the globe is in fact cooling, and he has an iceberg to prove it.

"Have you felt any warming this winter?" Lagerfeld, with trademark black sunglasses and white ponytail, told reporters after showing his autumn collection, referring to freezing cold weather outside. "Maybe that's all nonsense, who knows."

White House climate discussion yields pledge to keep talking - The Hill's E2-Wire

Brown said the meeting didn’t get into specifics about the nascent Kerry-Graham-Lieberman plan, which will depart from the sweeping economy-wide cap-and-trade plan the House approved last year.

Cautious Obama joins climate fray - The Hill's E2-Wire

President Barack Obama stepped gingerly into the Capitol Hill climate-change fight Tuesday, but an all-out White House push does not appear to be in the offing this year as other legislative priorities and the sagging economy command the president’s political capital.
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs downplayed the importance of the meeting with lawmakers, comparing it to a Monday meeting on immigration reform with Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Graham that was postponed. Immigration reform is not considered likely to move in Congress this year.
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While Gibbs said Obama “strongly believes that we need to get something done” on energy legislation, he seemed reluctant to embrace the idea that the president would take the lead on the issue.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said it remains to be seen whether the White House will spend political capital on climate legislation. “It’s too early to tell,” Brown told reporters. “My guess is they will, but we have got things bigger than that now — we’ve got the healthcare bill and the focus on jobs.

“But climate change to me is a jobs bill first and an environmental bill second,” added Brown, who is active in trying to ensure that any climate bill provides protections for domestic manufacturers.

Flashback: Is Barack Obama the Messiah?: "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal ..."

[Obama, June '08] ...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal