Senate Democrats Kill Ambitious Climate [Hoax] Legislation - Ecocentric - TIME.com

The headline has been written countless times, but this time it is true: carbon cap-and-trade of any sort will not come out of this Congress—and perhaps it never will.
...The truth is there weren't enough Democrats willing to support a carbon cap, let along Republicans. Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute—a think tank that is highly skeptical of cap and trade—told me that his group spoke to environmental lobbyists back in 2008 who were working on a cap-and-trade bill in the Senate then, the Warner-Lieberman bill. Though it never went to a full vote, Shellenberger believes that a carbon cap bill in 2008 would have received no more than 35 votes.
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"It's hard to see cap-and-trade coming back anytime within the next decade," Shellenberger told me.

Odes to a Dead Climate Bill -- in 140 Characters or Less - NYTimes.com

"Obama should heat up the debate to about 95F/35C by switching off the air conditioning in the Senate," tweeted a man named Wallyhalla, who in his profile says that he lives in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.

Year In Review With [the late] Daniel Schorr : NPR

SIMON: Global climate change conference in Copenhagen. Was this conference different than all the others?

SCHORR: Yes, I thought it was different at least in one respect. They weren't getting anywhere and then the president flew over to Copenhagen, he busted into a meeting that he hadn't been invited to with the Brazilians and Chinese and talked them into it. And they finally got not what they had hoped for, which was a bonding agreement, but they did at least make sure that it didn't go further back from where they were.

Daniel Schorr, Journalist, Dies at 93 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

Daniel Schorr, whose aggressive reporting over 70 years as a respected broadcast and print journalist brought him into conflict with censors, the Nixon administration and network superiors, died Friday in Washington. He was 93.