RANDALL RASMUSSEN: Energy plan a snow job

Given the shaky ground on which the global warming theory rests, deliberately increasing energy costs in a stagnant economy is irresponsible. Government should exist to support families and provide a healthy economic environment. Cap and trade energy policies do the opposite.

Snow in May I can handle. A snow job from Washington is too much.

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“It is very disappointing for developing countries that want to bring a certain carbon commodity onto the international market to then discover that certain key buyers are not interested in buying that commodity,” de Boer said.

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But the debate is far from over, warned Bast. Advocates of global warming are supported by billions of dollars from government and environmental agencies as well as the renewable energy industry. Says Joe, “They’re not just going to quit and go home.”

Joe got quite a laugh quoting School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia professor Mike Hulme’s words: “We need to ask not what we can do for climate change but what climate change can do for us.”

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Figueres, who has been a member of Costa Rica's negotiating team on climate change since 1995, will replace Yvo de Boer as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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She is married, has two daughters and lives outside Washington, DC.