The Senate’s Bait-and-Switch on Cap-and-Trade | The Foundry

Americans should make no distinction between cap-and-trade, energy taxes or an RES. Granting the government a more prominent, powerful role in selecting our energy sources will guarantee energy that is more expensive and less consumer choice in the future. Backroom deals. Less consumer choice. More expensive. Sounds a lot like ObamaCare.

Senate Democrats Put Reconciliation for Cap and Trade National Energy Tax in Budget Language - HUMAN EVENTS

Senate Democrats have included language in their 2011 budget resolution that would allow Democrats to try to ram through the massive cap and trade tax increase with only 51 votes in the Senate, according to a report in The Hill newspaper today.

Some Comments on Earth’s “Missing Energy” « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

I’m sorry, but at some point we need to ask whether all of this missing warming and energy are missing because they really do not exist.

Goofy Theory of the Day | Climate Skeptic

I sometimes wonder if we will see a future SAT question whose answer is “climate studies are to science as alchemy is to chemistry”.

Insulation promise dumped

THE Rudd government is set to renege on a promise to relaunch the $1000 home insulation rebate, focusing instead on fixing the tens of thousands of installations that were botched under the original scheme.

Canada says no to 'Robin Hood' tax - Brandon Sun

Proponents envision a small charge slapped on every financial transaction between financial institutions. It would target trading in currencies, stocks, derivatives and bonds. The tax would average about 0.05 per cent of the value of the transaction, or about 50 cents for every thousand dollars.

It would raise about $650 billion a year if the NGOs have their way. Half of that would go to domestic coffers. The other half would be split between aid for poor countries and mitigating climate change.