On Eve of New Climate Regs, A Primer on the Federal Greenhouse Gas Regime: Part I - ScienceInsider

The more divisive efforts are for regulating power plants, refineries, and big factories which emit greenhouse gases. Starting Sunday, new facilities require a permit if they are expected to emit 100,000 tons of CO2 (or equivalent greenhouse gas) a year. Existing plants that emit 100,000 or more tons will need a permit in July; starting Sunday existing plants will need permits if they plan to add 75,000 tons of new capacity.

On Eve of New Climate Regs, A Primer, Part II: Lawsuits - ScienceInsider

EPA's efforts rest on three pillars. Last year the agency finalized an official "endangerment finding" declaring that greenhouse gasses endanger public health or welfare. Then they set up rules to regulate those emissions from cars. Following that they proposed rules to define which sizes of existing or new industrial facilities required regulation, and when.

All three elements are at issue in one mega-case being litigated in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Hypocrisy? George Monbiot Criticizes Astroturfed Campaigns Whilst Leading Astroturfed Campaign. | hauntingthelibrary

Monbiot is the “honorary president” of an internet organisation called The Campaign Against Climate Change [CCC] - http://www.campaigncc.org/whoweare . What does the CCC do? Well . . . it scans the internet for articles on global warming and directs its army of supporters to the comments sections in the hope of influencing the debate.

“We are trying to create an online army” the website of the CCC proudly declares.

New York Times 2000: “sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling” | hauntingthelibrary

Oppenheimer even had a tear-jerking personal angle on the ‘absence of snow’ in modern winters. The New York Times writer mournfully announced that snow-balls fights are now as outdated as hoop-rolling, and quoted Oppenheimer on the pathetic spectacle of the unused sled in his stairwell, symbol of a warming world:

But it does not take a scientist to size up the effects of snowless winters on the children too young to remember the record-setting blizzards of 1996. For them, the pleasures of sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling, and the delight of a snow day off from school is unknown.