Ideas being debated for a U.S. climate [scam] bill | Green Business | Reuters

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, who calls addressing global warming "the biggest moral issue of our generation," says a "border tariff will have to be in it (the bill) and it will be."

Levin, from Michigan, has called for a 10-year delay in regulating carbon emissions from factories. Others have said five years would be more like it.
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International offsets could also play a big role.

EU ‘Surprised’ at CO2 Recycling; UN Denies Blame as Trade Halts - BusinessWeek

March 17 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union said it was “surprised and concerned” to learn that some United Nations credits have re-entered the carbon market even after being surrendered for compliance in the bloc’s cap-and-trade program.

The EU statement came in response to a dispute that may bring trading of UN carbon credits to a “grinding halt,” according to a managing director at BofAMerrill Lynch. BlueNext SA and Nasdaq OMX reacted by halting spot trading today of UN credits until they can determine what happen to offsets sold by Hungary after they were turned in for EU credit. The UN, for its part, said the EU is responsible for resolving the matter.

Christian Science Monitor: Public Just Doesn't Know Enough About Climate Change

Writer says Hollywood will help get environmental message out, as if it doesn't already.

Frances Beinecke: Climate Change Is a Scientific Reality, Not a Political Debate

...The report is based on observation, not on conjecture, political views, or ideology. The report goes on to say, "The global warming over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases."

These are definitive conclusions from the best research agencies in the world. They reflect scientific truths, not political interest groups.

Clean-Energy Investments Are Moving Ahead ‘Without Copenhagen’ - BusinessWeek

Investment last year in wind turbines, solar panels and other technologies that emit little or no CO2 pollutants declined 6 percent last year, Liebreich said today in a television interview at the start of a summit in London.
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The Wilderhill New Energy Global Innovation Index, whose 86 members include renewable energy-related companies such as First Solar Inc., has declined 9.8 percent this year compared with a 4 percent gain for the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index.

[If there's one thing we've learned by now, it's that insane CO2 swindles are the only way out of recessions?]: White House Officials Link Economic Recovery to CO2 Bill - Real Time Economics - WSJ

Senior Obama administration officials say the nation’s economic recovery could stall if Congress doesn’t pass a climate bill this year.