Saskatchewan people are allegedly "confused" because less than one in three believe that carbon dioxide capture and storage will prevent bad weather

But the same poll revealed less than one in three believes CCS technology is effective in fighting climate change, while nearly four out of 10 think it would be not very effective or not effective at all, said the survey of about 1,000 Saskatchewan residents conducted between May 30 and June 8 by Insightrix Research Inc.

Environment: Whatever Happened to Cap and Trade for Global Warming? - ABC News

Any hope for a formal cap and trade system is all but lost. "Realistically, the cap-and-trade bills in the House and the Senate are going nowhere," GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, a moderate, said after the midterms. "They're not business-friendly enough, and they don't lead to meaningful energy independence."

Though it's mostly out of Obama's hands now, the president never followed through on his promise, even with powerful majorities in Congress during the first half of his term.

Republicans Stonewall Dems On Climate Change Hearing Amid Severe Weather | TPMDC

A committee spokesperson for Energy & Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) told TPM that Republicans had already addressed the issue in a March 2011 hearing.

“The committee held a hearing last year to examine related issues including extreme weather events, patterns of warming, and the attribution of climate change to human activity,” the aide said. “With 41 consecutive months of higher than 8 percent unemployment, the committee’s focus continues to be on jobs and promoting commonsense solutions that protect both the environment and the economy.”

Climate change: forget heatwave fantasies and think about the drains

So, the overall effect of global warming will be to make our summers cooler and damper. The trouble is, this contradicts what most of the computer models have been saying to date, namely that in Britain we can expect hotter, drier summers and milder, damper winters. I spoke to Kate Willett, a climate scientist at the Met Office who agrees that the picture is confusing. “Yes, this contradicts the model of wetter winters and drier summers,” she says. It is also true, she adds, that since 2007 Arctic sea ice levels have been exceptionally low but it is not true that the last five summers have been exceptionally bad – those of 2010 and 2011 were average or a little above average in terms of sunshine and temperature.