The Senate’s Cap-and-Trade Subterfuge - The Editors - National Review Online

Fortunately for them, and unfortunately for the nation, the Democrats don’t need to pass a cap-and-trade bill in order to implement cap-and-trade. Obama’s EPA can do the unpopular work of rationing energy consumption while Congress can do the popular work of handing out big bags of money to the green lobby and spanking the oil companies with a handful of tax hikes.

Schumer says the climate bill is toast [UPDATED] | Grist

Let's be clear here: If there's an energy-only bill on the floor and a cap-and-trade system is offered as an amendment, the amendment will fail. That is as close to a certainty as you get in D.C. The whole reason the energy and climate portions of the bill were packaged together in the first place is to force lawmakers to accept the stick (cap) with the carrots (incentives for nukes, etc.). If they're allowed the opportunity to take all the good stuff with none of the bad stuff, of course they'll take it.

A Lawyer’s Examination of the IPCC “Evidence” for Man-made Global Warming | The SPPI Blog

Policy carrying potential costs in the trillions of dollars ought not to be based on stories and photos confirming faith in models, but rather on precise and replicable testing of the models’ predictions against solid observational data.