For Obama, Some Promises Kept, Some Broken - kcentv.com - KCEN HD - Waco, Temple, and Killeen

Cap and trade: Cap and trade, a system which puts a price on greenhouse gas emissions, was a centerpiece of candidate Obama's energy and environmental policy.

"As president, I will set a hard cap on all carbon emissions at a level that scientists say is necessary to curb global warming -- an 80 percent reduction by 2050," Obama said in 2007.

Four years later, cap and trade is still a dream for environmentalists, and there are no prospects for its implementation.

..."Cap and trade is dead," [Joshua Freed, a clean energy policy expert at Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank] said. "It no longer resonates with voters from either side."

Mild Winter Costs 60% Less For BG - Journal & Topics Newspapers Online: News

The mild winter season produced tremendous cost savings on snow removal for Buffalo Grove.

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> We Bend Science to our Beliefs

In 1982 (the year synthetic insulin was created via genetic engineering, by the way), 44% of Americans believed that God created humans in their present form some time in the last 10,000 years. Today, according to a new Gallup poll, that view is held by 46% of Americans.

Radiohead and 350.org: Mood music for a climate movement? | Grist

OK, so you still don’t think Radiohead and the climate movement go together? You’re right. They don’t. Which is what might make them a paradoxically perfect fit for this dread-filled, dissonant moment of ours.

Rio+20: don't wait for disappointment from the bureaucrats | Andrew Simms | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[comment] Trouble for you is, if anything, people generally are moving away from the fear of CO2 driven man-made catastrophe.

Kyoto - dead
Copenhagen - disaster
Durban - washout
Rio+20 - good party - CO2 to be sidelined in favour of "sustainability"
GB - greenest government ever? Think not!
Australia - entire population harboring homicidal ideas for green
Canada - no intention of signing emission treaties, ditched Kyoto
India - not going to reduce emissions
Japan - no intention of signing emission treaties
Russia - no intention of signing emission treaties
China - not going to reduce emissions
UEA hacking - Police not looking for anyone
CO2 - Increasing, Temperatures not
MWP - was global
GWPF - donor outed, nothing to do with big-oil
Jones - damaged, quiet.
Hansen - laughing stock
Mann - bricking it
Gleick - bricking it
Lovelock - I was wrong about global warming
Survey - intelligent people are climate skeptics

Your main problem is the dwindling of numbers of believers, I would say.