GOP boycotts climate change debate | 89.3 KPCC

Not all Democrats are as patient as Boxer. One committee member says the GOP senators are behaving like “schoolchildren.”
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[comment] I thought news presented both sides and let the reader decide. I guess I missed the paragraph with the GOP's response. Even Fox News interviews someone from the other side of a debate.

Dan Rather: Buying carbon offsets could become a speculator’s game

Business leaders and environmentalist support the idea. Some others see it as a form of madness, or at the least very bad policy.

A cap-and-trade policy has been in place in the European Union since 2005, and it has already spawned a multibillion-dollar global carbon market that’s increasing exponentially. But a growing chorus of critics worries that cap-and-trade will give big polluters a way of dodging their responsibilities and do more for speculators on Wall Street than for the environment.

Montana snowpack way above usual

Very early snowpack numbers show that snowpack on the upper Yellowstone River basin, which stretches from Yellowstone Park to Custer, is 170 percent of normal.

"Critics say Gore set to reap greenbacks from green backing" - The Boston Globe