Editorial: Cap-and-trade is high-stakes bet on state's future » Redding Record Searchlight

With the statewide unemployment rate still a painful 11.9 as of September (and that's an improvement), it's bizarre for the state government to embrace a plan that stands to dramatically raise the cost of living and doing business.

It would be one thing if the entire nation were going along for the ride, if all states were facing equal burdens. But California is essentially alone in launching its anti-carbon crusade.

The Great Green Energy Crack-Up - Forbes

Thanks in no small part to the debacle in Europe, in a very few recent weeks, we have witnessed the great green crack-up.

Now is not the time to renege on green pledges | Observer editorial | Comment is free | The Observer

Charles Koch is a billionaire and a climate warming sceptic. At least, he was until last week when a study that he part-funded indicated that estimates of global temperature increases in the past century had not, after all, been artificially boosted by the "urban heat island" effect.