[Still more complete left-wing insanity from Tom Friedman: Now he's comparing 7-Up bubbles to a nuclear bomb]

But there are now two other bombs our children have hanging over them: the debt bomb and the climate bomb.

As we continue to build up carbon in the atmosphere to unprecedented levels, we never know when the next emitted carbon molecule will tip over some ecosystem and trigger a nonlinear climate event — like melting the Siberian tundra and releasing all of its methane, or drying up the Amazon or melting all the sea ice in the North Pole in summer. And when one ecosystem collapses, it can trigger unpredictable changes in others that could alter our whole world.

[Is George W. Bush still president?]: US threatens to derail climate talks by refusing to include Kyoto targets | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The US threatened to derail a deal on global climate change today in a public showdown with China by expressing deep opposition to the existing Kyoto protocol. The US team also urged other rich countries to join it in setting up a new legal agreement which would, unlike Kyoto, force all countries to reduce emissions.

Senators link drilling with cap-and-trade [swindle]

WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic senators negotiating a possible compromise on climate change legislation insisted Tuesday that the measure must include provisions to boost nuclear power and expand offshore drilling.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has been huddling with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and other moderates on the issue, said linking nuclear power and offshore drilling with a cap-and-trade plan for limiting carbon dioxide emissions is “the winning formula” to pushing the measure through the Senate.

Senate Dems Opening to Nuclear as Path to GOP Support for Climate [Fraud] Bill - NYTimes.com

"I think the planet is heating up," [Republican Senator Lindsey] Graham said. "I think CO2 emissions are damaging the environment and this dependence on foreign oil is a natural disaster in the making. Let's do something about it. I'd like to solve a problem, and if it's on President Obama's watch, it doesn't bother me one bit if it makes the country better off."