Energy policy is more than drilling, administration officials say - The Hill's E2-Wire

[comment] The Oil Slickster-in-Chief forgot about opening up the Left Coast to drilling. Hmmm… wonder how that happened. Yes, this is just a Trojan Horse for Cap-and-Trade.

Top 5 hurdles climate [scam] bill must clear - TheHill.com

Joshua Freed, director of the Clean Energy Initiative at The Third Way, a Democratic think tank, said the biggest issues will be those that are important to the 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th votes in the Senate needed to clear a filibuster.

Kerry, Graham and Lieberman have reached out to businesses and other groups, but everyone is waiting on the actual bill.

“We don’t have a breathing body yet, let alone a corpse to send over to CSI,” Freed said.

Britain brandishes olive branch to restart global climate change talks | Environment | The Guardian

The high-level advisory group on climate change financing, convened by UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon and chaired by Brown and Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi, will consider at least six ways of raising up to $1tn dollars for climate change adaptation. These include:

• a small levy on all international aviation and shipping
• enlarging existing carbon cap-and-trade markets
• imposing a small "Robin Hood"-type tax on all financial transactions
• using the International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights.

80 months and counting ... | Andrew Simms | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Each month Andrew Simms is analysing how much closer the world has moved to catastrophic climate change.

[New York:  State pols push for federal help from storms]

Early figures put regional costs of the harsh winter at $130 million
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Earlier this month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied New York's application for aid with the late December blizzard, a decision Senator Charles Schumer has vowed "to fight tooth and nail to reverse."