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Long story short, things are looking extremely grim for a cap on carbon. (The New York Times' John Broder says: "probably not.") It's up to Reid to pull together a bill out of the many proposals now floating around. My guess is, he heard from Baucus and Bingaman last week that a cap-and-trade proposal can't pass. He's meeting with the full Dem caucus this week and he's likely to hear the same thing, at least from the "centrists" whose votes will make the difference. Right now Obama and the Dems badly need to do something to address the oil spill, and they no doubt fear that a carbon cap would just bog the bill down in gridlock. There is, in other words, virtually no significant political force pushing to include a carbon cap. Just, you know, environmentalists. Oh, and the voices of America's future generations as they cry out in judgment of our cowardice and myopia.

Twitter / David Roberts [look, he even used capital letters]

Status quo will lead to climate catastrophe. That is CERTAIN. Sci. uncertainties all around how much we have to do to avoid the worst of it.