[But does God believe in the greatest scientific fraud in human history?] While the world burns | Michael Tomasky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

When you stop and really wonder what has to happen to make conservatives take this seriously, it's actually pretty frightening, because they won't take it seriously until some massive catastrophe happens. Sometimes you just wish God, if he-she-it exists, would just come down from the sky and say, uh, you people are nuts, and you're not on my side. Get it together.

Gore on climate: 'Inconvenient as ever' - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

At a very low moment for his cause, with Democrats giving up on a climate bill for now, Al Gore puts out a statement:

...Our national security, our economic recovery and the future of the United States of America — and indeed the future of human civilization on this Earth — depends on our country taking leadership. And that, in turn, depends on the United States Senate acting. The truth about the climate crisis — inconvenient as ever — must be faced.

Twitter / Brad Johnson

What's unfortunate is this movement has been framed around climate and there isn't enough of a movement around climate.

Key environmentalists ok with delay on climate bill until fall

 - The Hill's E2-Wire

Senate Democrats will discuss the topic at a policy lunch on Thursday. Kerry also said there may be other meetings Thursday — including with White House officials — that would be key in determining the path forward.
 


Kerry said President Obama is not expected be personally involved in these meetings.


Republicans on the wrong side of history by opposing energy reform (Sen. Harry Reid) - The Hill's Congress Blog

They can join with us to pass these simple, straight forward bipartisan measures to hold BP accountable, lessen our dependence on oil and create jobs, or they can continue to protect big oil companies and kill job growth in America.  [again, where's the part about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire?]

INHOFE LOOKS FORWARD TO SEPTEMBER DEBATE ON NATIONAL ENERGY TAX

"I am pleased that Sen. Reid decided against resurrecting cap-and-trade legislation before the August recess, owing to the fact that several members of his own party have rightly indicated their opposition to it," Sen. Inhofe said. "Instead, he and other cap-and-trade supporters have signaled a desire to possibly consider such legislation when Congress returns in September. I very much look forward to having yet another debate in the Senate on jobs, consumers, the economy, and the serious damage that a national energy tax would inflict on all three."