Sen. Murkowski may offer EPA rule delay to small-business bill - The Hill's E2-Wire

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee ranking member Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) may offer a plan from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) to delay EPA regulations of greenhouse gases for power plants and refineries for two years as an amendment to a small-business package.

Local News | Western Climate Initiative offers cap-and-trade | Seattle Times Newspaper

The strategy also called for linking up with other carbon markets in the East and Midwest, an approach Stavins said would make them more efficient. [Maybe they should link to the Chicago Climate Exchange, where one ton of harmless CO2 can currently be offset for one dime?]

- Bishop Hill blog - Is New Scientist making things up?

New Scientist has published a rather remarkable leader to go alongside its interview of Phil Jones:

For years, ruthless climate sceptics have harassed scientists, drowning them in freedom of information requests and subjecting them to vicious personal attacks. Climategate was merely the public face of this insurgent war. In that hostile climate, some scientists fired off personal emails that occasionally lacked decorum. The CRU accepts this. When will their opponents apologise for their own excesses?

American Thinker: Carbon Cronyism: Why Cap-and-Trade Is Not Dead Yet

...the Democrats are determined to get cap-and-trade. It's just a question of when. There's too much money to be made for Democrat cronies to let this opportunity pass.

Foodchain-Angst: Scientists and Media Spread More Enviro-Shock & Awe « P Gosselin – NoTricksZone

The study involves the Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Research, directed by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, visionary of The Great Transformation , and Stefan Rahmstorf, who predicts sea levels will rise 1.7 meters in the next 90 years, but refuses to even bet on a 60 cm rise. This is an institute that is well well-known for activist science and fear-mongering, with the clear agenda of reorganizing how people live. A dangerous social engineering experiment.