September Auto Sales Go Clunk - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Edmunds.com reports that “September’s light-vehicle sales rate will fall to 8.8 million units . . . the lowest rate in nearly 28 years, tying the worst demand on record. After the cash-for-clunkers program boosted August sales to their first year-over-year increase since October 2007, demand has plunged. In at least the last 33 years, the U.S. seasonally adjusted annual rate has only dropped as low as 8.8 million units once — in December 1981 — with records stretching back to January 1976.”

Heather Taylor-Miesle, Director of the NRDC Action Fund: Senator Murkowski Lights a Fire Under Alaskan Ice

Senator Murkowski, the melting ice, rising sea, displaced people, and drowning polar bears don’t see the difference in the sources of pollution – all they see are the dire impacts of not cleaning up the pollution itself. It is time to address the impacts of global warming pollution. You - of all of our elected-officials - should be leading the charge.

Conservative Christians assail Obama agenda | Politics | Reuters

Obama's falling poll numbers and what they depict as his ultra-liberal views on abortion rights, healthcare and climate change are galvanizing a group that could prove vital to Republican prospects of taking back control of Congress in the 2010 congressional elections or the White House in 2012.

Conservative activists see exploitable opportunities in Obama's policies and performance that also can stir more centrist voters, such as suspicions of "big government" and the almost uniquely American skepticism of global warming that prevails in much of the heartland.
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Most of those attending swim far from the political center.

"I don't believe in global warming," said conservative activist Kim Simac, a horse trainer and mother of nine from Wisconsin who also believes that the teaching of creationism and prayer need to be brought back to public schools.

The religious right has been at the forefront of conservative efforts to rally public opposition to climate change legislation aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.

Conservative Christian radio stations have spent the summer saying the legislation's "cap and trade" provisions would represent the biggest tax increase in U.S. history. That has stoked opposition and could have an impact when the legislation, already passed in the House of Representatives, is considered in the Senate.

Flashback: Dingell: Cap and trade a 'great big' tax - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), ousted by Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) in a race for the Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship earlier this year, has called Waxman’s cap-and-trade system “a great big” tax.