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After Barack Obama signed ObamaCare into law, publicly-traded corporations that allow retirees to remain on their prescription medication coverage plans had to announce write-downs against future earnings because of the end of a tax credit for keeping retirees off of Medicare Part D. Henry Waxman demanded that the CEOs come to a Congressional hearing to explain themselves, and then made the same demand when the American Farm Bureau publicly opposed his cap-and-trade bill. Today, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) ripped Waxman on the House floor, claiming that Waxman’s attempts at political intimidation flew in the face of the First Amendment...

Climategate: CRU whiter than – er – whitewash, as world laughs at AGW scam apologists – Telegraph Blogs

If you want incontrovertible evidence that it is business as usual for the arrogant academic establishment, today has provided it. In the popular jargon, they still don’t get it. They imagine the AGW scam will go on forever, along with all the other lies with which the political class deluges the public. This effort is too sloppy really to merit the term whitewash: the sceptical graffiti are still clearly visible through the transparent white coating.
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Clearly, the AGW camp takes a dim view of misleading the public. Is it just my irredeemable scepticism, or am I right in forecasting that the CRU is not about to receive many apologies? Globally, slightly more people currently believe the world is supported on the back of a giant turtle than believe in the AGW scam.

A global warming governor after our own hearts, rather than our wallets - Orange Punch : The Orange County Register

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has wised up a bit and decided to take $65 million out of the state budget – the entire allocation – that was to be spent on “global warming,” whatever creative spending that would have been.
...Schwarzenegger’s air board already has spent just about the amount New Jersey cut and can’t say where the money went.

» The Carbon Cap Push Back: Restraining Executive Abuse - Doug Turner

Remember the summer of 2009, when the Obama administration tried to push through a cap and trade bill? It passed the U.S. House, and it’s been sitting in the U.S. Senate ever since, where I expect it will stay. In short, it failed to pass muster with federal leaders who perhaps recognized that its passage would be both detrimental to our limping economy and to their political futures if they supported it.

Fast forward to 2010. New Mexico has decided to go it alone and unilaterally pass its own Cap and Trade program, making it the only state in the country to ignore the federal decision on this issue. More specifically, NM Governor Bill Richardson and his lame-duck administration have decided to use administrative process alone to force through Cap and Trade, and even bypass our state legislature.