The latest in Democratic fecklessness | Grist

...Translated into English: The president asked a group of centrist and conservative senators to support action on climate, and they refused. They want to offer subsidies and tax breaks to various favored technologies, but they don't want to raise the revenue to pay for it.

So that's that. Right now we are on a glide path to failure. Unless there's some sort of large jolt, the default outcome is that all polluter-pays provisions drop out of the bill and we end up with some energy-only package of standards and incentives.

What could provide such a big jolt? My cynical D.C. sources say: nothing. Everyone knows the votes aren't there and everyone's playacting and insisting on a carbon price would be so much windmill-tilting. Then again, the inside players never saw the wave coming on financial reform and that bill ended up defying political gravity.

[But luckily, it's just weather]: BBC News - Bad winter behind decline in red and roe deer

A long and harsh winter has been blamed for a fall in red and roe deer numbers in east and west Grampian, according to the latest deer count.

Sorting Myth and Reality in Climate Policy - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

8. Going green is green (e.g., it makes economic sense to go green).

Sex, Lies and Global Warming? 'Hannity' Examines Al Gore Assault Allegations - Hannity - FOXNews.com

HANNITY: When you hear that, does that sound credible, believable?

TANTAROS: Absolutely. And if you read through the 73 pages, it sounds very credible. I mean, she goes into very vivid detail. And look, I think there's a reason why Al Gore is not saying anything. It's because he knows that his liberal friends in the media are going to cover up and not cover the story.

'Media avoids any mention of the Gore complaint: ‘Come on, Baby, Release my Chakra''

That's what we call selective coverage. If you're a liberal, you can literally get away with probable murder (Teddy Kennedy), rape (Bill Clinton), children out of wedlock (John Edwards), association with known racists and terrorists (Barack Obama), involvement with the mob (JFK), pimping out gay prostitutes from your apartment (Barney Frank) and membership in the KKK (Robert Byrd), so long as you believe in bigger government and less financial freedom. If you're a conservative, you get ousted for complimenting a racist on his 100th birthday (Trent Lott) or having a consensual affair (John Ensign, Mark Souder, etc.). That's not to say that Lott and Co. shouldn't have resigned — it's just to say that if they'd been Democrats, they'd be sitting secure in their seats, their brows bound with victorious wreaths.

Paying President's 'Price On Carbon' - IBD - Investors.com

Whether through the front door, the back door or behind another closed Senate door, cap-and-trade will put a price not only on carbon, but also on freedom. The power to tax is the power to destroy, but it is also the power to control.

- Bishop Hill blog - HSI in ECOS

This book will have repercussions. It is well written, though demanding of constant focus, well laid-out and thoroughly referenced. It should be read by every believer in the authority of scientific institutions – but of course, that is not likely. Montford has done a great service to science, to history and to a public grown sceptical of the scare stories upon which vast amounts of research funding, carbon trading and energy technology subsidies depend. That story cannot now claim that the 20th century warmth is unprecedented.