Interview: Roger Pielke Jr. on why a small tax is our best hope in climate change fight | SciGuy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

1) Science has sufficiently made the case that climate change is a significant threat that requires action.
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6) The best potential solution is a slight tax on carbon that would be all but unnoticeable to the public but would generate billions of dollars for much-needed research into alternative energy resources, technologies such as batteries and carbon sequestration.

Repent for Your Environmental Sins!

Environmentalism has become the theology of the left, fusing neatly with class warfare and abandoning technological progressivism, for Luddite moralizing. But its only true creed is that of power. Behind the drumbeat of its invective, one may easily spot measures for control, for funneling money into “Green Products” and “Green Jobs”, and for educational programs that indoctrinate this creed into the mind and soul of every child. And so the struggle continues.

Al Fin: The Unutterable Stupidity of Obama's "Smart Grid"

President Barack Obama’s talk about the need for a “smart grid” sounds, well, smart...As currently envisaged, however, it’s a dangerously dumb idea. _SciAm

Obama EPA Chief Lisa Jackson FALSELY Claims She is 'legally obligated now' to use Clean Air Act to regulate Co2 | Climate Depot

Reality Check: 'EPA is NOT 'legally obligated' to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act...In its March 2007 decision Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court ruled only that the EPA may — not that it had to — regulate GHGs. And the Bush administration subsequently declined to regulate GHGs'

EPA’s Own Estimates Say Greenhouse Gas Regs Could ‘Slow Construction Nationwide for Years’ -- and Take a Century to Reduce Temperature 0.0015 Degrees | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) – Tough new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency restricting greenhouse gas emissions might reduce global temperatures only 0.0015 of a degree Celsius in the next century, but as a side effect, those rules will “slow construction nationwide for years,” the EPA said in a June 3 statement.