Inhofe Urges Obama to Focus on Gulf Spill, Not Cap-and-Trade

[Inhofe] ...This is remarkable: here we have the most significant environmental disaster in our nation’s history, and the President decides now is the time for cap-and-trade, a massive new energy tax, paid for by consumers, working families, farmers, and small businesses; a massive new energy tax that will destroy millions of jobs, in good measure by sending many of them to places like China and India; a massive new energy tax that would make a gallon of gasoline more expensive; and a massive new energy tax that won’t do a thing to stop global warming, but will increase the size of government and give more money for politicians to spend.

No Frakking Consensus: The Activists, the Poll & the Data

Here are academics eager to influence the public discussion about climate change. They issue a press release about non-peer-reviewed research findings hoping to attract media attention (see here for another reporter's coverage). But when an informed observor requests a full list of the questions so she can satisfy herself that the survey was conducted in a fair manner, the academics feel no obligation to provide such information. In other words, like other climate researchers, they expect the rest of us to blindly trust them.

How Global Warming and Capitalism Are Deeply Intertwined | Environment | AlterNet

The escalating processes of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment and toxification--which continue despite decades of warnings and earnest effort--are a severe indictment of capitalism.