FOXNews.com - Boxer Facing Toughest Re-Election Battle of Her Career

For the first time in her political career, Barbara Boxer may be about to meet her match – according to one poll, Boxer is neck and neck with all three of the Republicans who hope to run against her in November.

New York Times Declares Cap and Trade Dead. So How Come It's Not? : TreeHugger

I consider the New York Times to be the paper of record in the United States, as many people do. But its coverage of climate issues in particular has been frustrating lately.

Climate Activists Call for Tighter Emissions Caps - NYTimes.com

"They got something for nothing, and they're worth something, so it is a windfall profit if they sell them today," said Mark Lewis, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, referring to the steel sector. The surplus permits accrued by the European steel sector in 2008 and 2009 were worth €1.5 billion, taking into account the current price of carbon, Mr. Lewis said.

Roger L. Simon » Environmentalism: the new home of the Luddite reactionaries

Marx was right about a (very) few things, but one of those was his oft-quoted gloss on Hegel about history repeating itself “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

And speaking of repeating farces, the anthropogenic global warming movement is reaching maybe its hundredth sold-out, standing room only comedic spectacular with the latest news that the purportedly disappearing arctic sea ice is back to “normal” levels after less than a decade. Next the over-breeding polar bears will be invading our cities. Attention Don Siegel, wherever you are. Meanwhile, it seems the Germans, of all people, have had enough of this farce and are closing their Global Warming Theater. (Well, I always preferred Schiller.)

Tokyo launches Asia’s first carbon emissions trade scheme | Grist

Tokyo's Governor Shintaro Ishihara, known for his strong nationalist and ecological ideas, led the city's unsuccessful bid to host a green 2016 Olympic Games, which he promised "would save planet Earth."