Graham stands ground on climate bill - POLITICO.com

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) all but sounded the death knell for climate change legislation before the midterms on Monday – saying he wouldn’t back any energy bill this year if Democrats also took up immigration reform.

Graham, emerging from a closed-door meeting with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), went beyond his previous demand that climate change be taken up before immigration – saying that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) must ditch immigration altogether to earn his backing.
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“It dooms everything,” Graham said Monday about Reid’s determination to bring immigration to a floor vote. “It’s not that I’m not capable of doing two things it’s that the immigration issue has no traction.”

Shock: Microbes aren’t accelerating global warming as expected

LONDON - Soil microbes are producing less atmospheric carbon dioxide than scientists expected, a new American research has found.

CNSNews.com - Joe Scarborough: ‘Saving the World for Moral Reasons’ Is ‘the Republican View’

(CNSNews.com) – Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough, now host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said that if the “moral argument” to combat climate change, along with wide distribution of Al Gore’s movie on the topic, have not convinced enough Americans to “believe in global warming,” then “you do have to make the Machiavellian arguments” – in other words, place political expediency above morality to address the issue.

Rudd’s ETS would have made Australia look ridiculous, Fielding says | Australian Conservative

Family First Leader Senator Fielding has called on the Prime Minister to stand up and tell Australians what he really believes in after he confirmed the emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been put on the political scrap heap until 2013.

“Australians are sick of the Rudd Government stuffing up programs and reneging on its promises,” Senator Fielding said.

“Where’s the greatest moral challenge of our time gone? One moment the ETS is important and the next minute it isn’t..."