Gaseous Emissions - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Doing their usual bit to assist the global-warming industry, today's Greenwire has a sob story about how natural gas is finally getting together to push back against that mean old, well-organized, financially monstrous and utility-backed coal. This repeats a refrain gas-industry types have of late increasingly been uttering among themselves.

Please. At a meeting with the Union of Concerned Scientists and other greens to figure out how to hatch Kyoto, I sat next to some industry heavies — who shall for now, both at the individual member company and trade association level, go nameless — when subbing for Kenny Boy on maybe day two of my approximately three weeks of glory with Enron in 1997. In short, they helped invent this whole thing to begin with. It's a little late — as well as unseemly — to cry about the other guy hitting back.

We will protect air travel for the masses, says Ed Miliband | Environment | The Guardian

Mass air travel will be preserved even in a low-carbon Britain because the government will find deeper emissions cuts in other areas, the climate change secretary Ed Miliband said today.

Dismissing demands for punitive sanctions to curb flying, Miliband said the government was determined to ensure that airline travel remains affordable for ordinary people.
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"All our research indicates that people in Britain are not climate change deniers. But now they are persuaded it is a problem, you have to start offering them a vision about how you tackle the problem."

Capitol Hill Climate Debate Seen as Key to Copenhagen "Success" - NYTimes.com

What would be catastrophic, according to several climate advocates, would be a Senate vote before Copenhagen that falls well short of 60.

With the world watching Washington, an unsuccessful Senate roll call could sink the Copenhagen negotiations at a time when Obama is trying to rebuild trust after more than a decade of U.S. resistance to the Kyoto Protocol and the largely voluntary climate policies of the George W. Bush administration.

"An unmitigated disaster that almost certainly means no progress in Copenhagen, and probably no serious negotiations after Copenhagen until the U.S. political situation improves," Meyer said of a losing Senate vote, adding that such a defeat would likely punt progress in the international negotiations beyond the 2010 midterm elections.

"Everyone knows there can't be a repeat of Kyoto," added Annie Petsonk, international counsel at the Environmental Defense Fund, referring to the 1997 Senate's 95-0 vote that essentially doomed chances of the protocol's ratification in the United States.