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Curiously, the American media has been almost entirely AWOL on the collapse of the IPCC and anthropogenic global-warming hysteria as its intelligence has been proven not just wrong, as the WMD intel from multiple Western nations was in Iraq, but blatantly fraudulent. It has been exposed as mainly comprised of bad anecdotal recording, biased manipulations of data, and collations of hysterical claims by environmental extremists.

Global Warming: No Big Deal? - Science and Tech - The Atlantic

In general, any risks to children, for example, evoke more fear than the same risks if they only threaten adults. So in order to raise concern, those worried about global warming emphasize that our children will suffer most if we fail to act.

Hoax of the Century by Patrick J. Buchanan

Today's global warming hysteria is the hoax of the 21st century. H.L. Mencken had it right: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

[Breaking: People with an interest in RGGI claim that RGGI isn't a failure!]

And because a short ton has never reached the $5-$10 price range that many predicted at the program's outset, the expense of carbon allowances "barely merits a note" for the targeted plants, Cordner said, noting that multibillion-dollar energy companies "don't even have RGGI in their accounting book."

Nonetheless, RGGI's purpose was never to penalize the electric utility sector, and Schrag does not seem to mind if trading carbon is less lucrative than trading pork bellies, so long as the market operates as it should.