The cost of global warming to the taxpayer (OneNewsNow.com)

...However, Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com disagrees with Crockett about the effect cap-and-trade will have on consumers. He says the CEO of Duke Energy came up with a different estimate.

"The guy estimated that with the Lieberman-Warner bill that was defeated last June, [in] which only 75 percent of the credits were going to be given away, that would have raised electricity prices by 40 percent," Milloy points out. "Now [president-elect] Obama, he wants to auction off 100 percent of the credits, which means the electricity prices could double."

In Europe, Milloy notes the carbon trade market collapsed in 2006 because Germany arbitrarily decided that it did not emit as much carbon as previously thought, which in turn flooded the market with credits. He believes that governments have gone so far down the path of global warming alarmism that reality does not matter anymore.

Chilling Effect Exclusive: CEI’s Chris Horner Tells Us All About Red Hot Lies

TCE: Your book looks at Al Gore, the UN, and New York Times. Is there anyone “most” to blame for the current climate of fear, or was it truly a team effort?

CH: This is a broad-based coalition starting with the population zealots, nanny-statists, fallen communists, pro-tax, anti-development usual suspects…plus. The most egregious offenders include the institutions of science, which do retain great public trust, and had better given the tens of billions the public hands them each year. But they have proven wretchedly unworthy of this, having largely sold out in the name of guaranteed appropriations and with significant annual increases. I quote one leading alarmist in “Red Hot Lies” cautioning his peers — in 1990, mind you — to be careful not to kill off this golden goose, because they will not have seen the likes of it before and may not again. I take that as an admonition to not let certain queasiness over unsupportable alarmism to get in the way. Whatever, they seemed to have listened.

Associated Press: Repent, Global Warming... | Gather

I think it’s worth remembering that most, if not all, of the global warming hysteria is driven by people with an interest in either selling newspapers or using climate change as an excuse to expand their power and control. After all, what better excuse to tax and regulate everything than a crisis that names the very air we exhale, not to mention the farts we and our animal comrades emit, as “pollution.”

North Star Writers Group - Syndicated Commentary: Opinion, Humor and Features

Ms. Browner’s appointment gives me the feeling that climate might just be one area in which Sleek Barry means to keep his campaign promise: “reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.”

Only one way to do that, according to Mr. Horner: “(I)n the global warming agenda we are dealing with a premise that, once adopted, leads to no other conclusion than to accept government control of nearly every aspect of our lives.” That’s something the Supreme Court has recently given the EPA power to do largely by fiat.

In other words, more than mere metaphorical czardom.

Where do I turn myself in?