Cap-and-Trade Is Not Dead « The Enterprise Blog

Republicans need to understand this: despite the president’s rhetoric of including nuclear power, natural gas, and coal with “carbon capture and storage” as clean energy, environmentalists are not going to consider them to be “clean.” They will insist that a credit of solar power or wind power be worth several times a credit for natural gas or nuclear power. As for coal with carbon capture and storage, the economics and engineering logistics of that are so horrendous as to render it a fantasy. Once again, this “trading system” will be used for political purposes of favoring friends and punishing enemies, while putting the bill for more expensive energy on the ratepayers.

Ambrose: Don't overreact to so-called global warming | ScrippsNews

There's a new book out, something called "Hot." The author worries how his little girl will suffer if something isn't done about global warming, says a New York Times reviewer confiding that the concern broke his heart.

Here's something that should also break his heart. If we do the wrong thing about the climate, we might do far more harm than global warming ever could, maybe killing children.

It's utterly amazing that so many journalists and others inundate us regularly with scare stories demanding that the United States take fierce anti-warming action while scarcely ever pausing to mention the possible futility of it all -- or the costs.