Thursday, September 30, 2010

[Alarmist Bryan Walsh: Warm weather is "nice"] - TIME.com
(Which means if thousands of people end up waiting outside the gates of the conference, as happened in frosty Copenhagen last year, at least the weather will be nice.)
European Union Cap-and-Trade Hasn't Given Price Signal, Investor Poll Says - Bloomberg
The European Union’s carbon trading system hasn’t provided the needed long-term price signal for investors to switch away from carbon-intensive technologies, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change said.

A survey of more than 40 investors including property, carbon, infrastructure and pension funds found that fewer than 10 percent of respondents said the EU Emissions Trading System had provided a strong enough price incentive to switch from carbon-intensive technologies, and none said the EU-ETS had provided long-term price certainty, the group said today.
NorthJersey.com: Q&A with North Jersey Congressional candidates: Climate change and what to do about it
Michael Agosta, Republican challenger
“Well, the global warming, I thought after all that with Al Gore and his film career and all of his Nobel Peace Prize and such, I thought there was that scandal with the e-mail about how fake that actual situation truly is. Are we contributing to it? Yes we are, in a very, very, very small amount. … In the late 80s or early 90s, they were blaming cows with the methane. Now we're going to blame, we talk about [carbon dioxide], here in New Jersey, actually, whether it's a possible pollutant. CO2. If we have no CO2, we have no grass, we have no trees, then we'll die. … I think we have enough, between the [Environmental Protection Agency] and any other agency in the federal government, we have enough regulations on the books and laws and such and I don't think we need any more intervention."

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