Public Service Commission officially puts coal plant on hold and talks global warming - NOLA.com

...Global warming, Morano said, is a means for public officials to use fear to fund their agendas, and the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a "political gimmick." As it gets harder to perpetuate the fiction of global warming, Morano said, even global warming believers are starting to defect and declare that cap and trade won't work.

"Clearly, there's something wrong in concensusville," Morano said. "It's entirely possible that all the changes are natural."

This folly, Morano said, is akin to a $4,500 annual tax on consumers. "It's just all economic pain for no climate gain," he said.

When Campbell, one of the two Public Service Commissioners on the five-member board who believes that human activities are responsible for heating up the planet, demanded to know demanded to know who paid for Morano to come to the meeting, Morano shot back: "I took a carbon spewing airplane."

BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: The Catlin Arctic Survey: daring, yes, but is the science any good?

This begs the question: are we learning anything from these measurements that we couldn't gain, perhaps more accurately, from satellite data? There's also the important issue of a potential 'reporting bias' due to the fact that the team's journey over the ice was dictated by what it was possible to cross, rather than by the most direct route to the North Pole.
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If nothing else, Hadow et al's reports of hardship in minus 70°C temperatures confirm that the Arctic is still a formidable and unpredictable wilderness. And the latest data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre suggests the Catlin team really lucked in. The report states that this year the sea ice 'decline rate for the month of April was the third slowest on record'.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » What A Carbon Tax Proposal Looks Like

A bipartisan group of legislators has introduced in the U.S. Congress a proposal for a revenue neutral carbon tax. To get an idea of what it is about see this description (in PDF).

It starts out by taking issues of science [fraud] off the table:

The economic downturn calls for action to stimulate the economy, such as reducing the amount of taxes taken out of each paycheck.

Our ongoing dependence on foreign oil from hostile nations also calls for action to reduce that dependence and move to fuels of the future.

Even if you disagree with the science of climate change, everyone agrees that less carbon in the atmosphere would not hurt us.