Todd Darling: Global warming bill still contains some smoke and mirrors - Los Angeles Times

The European-style 'cap and trade' provisions on emissions will fuel only failure and should be replaced by a carbon tax.
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The Reference Frame: U.S. climate panickers plan a global trade war

The proponents of the carbon regulation in the U.S. not only want to introduce a suicidal carbon tax. They also want to impose new tariffs on all nations who will fail to introduce the same suicidal carbon tax on their own territory.

In other words, they plan a global trade war against all skeptical nations. Cute. ;-)

BBC - Ethical Man blog: Looking back over an action-packed odyssey

You want an idea of the scale of the challenge global warming presents? A friend who works for Operation Noah put it like this: invisible gases produced by everything man does are allegedly affecting people on the other side world in ways that have not yet become clear. The problem is that by the time they do become clear it will be too late.

And, of course, what makes it even more difficult it that lots of people say this is all nonsense.

BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: Do big brains stem from cooler climates?

It's not hard to see where this is going. Burning fossil fuels and warming up the planet will make it harder for our struggling brains to cool down, says Dr Axel Kleidon at the University of Maryland.

'An important implication', Dr Kleidon concludes, 'is that global warming is likely to lead to environmental conditions less suitable for human metabolic activity in their natural environment ... due to a lower ability to loose heat.'

[So should Obama quit cranking up his office thermostat in winter?]

The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”