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Crap & Trade: Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown helps save planet by regulating cow flatulence & manure
Silent but deadly
Jerry Brown: C’mon, California’s High Speed Rail Will Be Way Cheaper Than $100 Billion
Off-the-rails funding options
Inevitable: Qantas, Virgin Airlines Passing Australia’s Carbon Tax Along to Consumers
**Written by Doug Powers Australia is debuting a carbon tax much like the one Al Gore has proposed for the United States. A few details: In Australia, the federal government launched plans for a $23 per tonne tax on carbon, which will affect the country’s 500 largest polluters commencing July 1, 2012. “By 2020 our […]
Obama Admin. Spending over $17 Million Exploring Market for Carbon Credits
More artificial resuscitation for Al Gore’s dream
Of Course: Obama’s Commerce Department Nominee is a Global Warming Fanatic
**Written by Doug Powers Because designing an economy around the assumption that we’re all about to die from man-made global warming is working out so well for commerce in Spain, let’s keep the ball rolling in the United States: (CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, nominated by President Barack Obama today to head the Department of Commerce, […]
Gingrich Campaign Spin on Global Warming PSA with Nancy Pelosi: It Wasn’t a Love-Fest, it Was a Debate
Point/Counterpoint
Al Gore Compares Global Warming to Civil Rights Movement
The dream is slipping away
Cancun Climate Summit Scientists Call for **Rationing in the Developed World (**Exceptions: Climate Change Summits & Al Gore)
**Written by Doug Powers For the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, which began today, representatives from somewhere in the neighborhood of 194 countries flew to Mexico from all around the world. Why? Well, partly to tell the rest of us we need to chill out on the long-haul flights: In one paper Professor […]
Heads up: Cap and tax showdown is coming
Get ready. Here it comes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid revealed today that he has a draft cap-and-tax monstrosity in the works. The Dems are gearing up for debate this month. Or rather, “debate.” Remember what Democrat Max Baucus said about his own colleagues — they don’t know “what the heck” they are doing as […]
Stuck on stupid: Obama’s czar fetish
In his widely-panned, bloodless Oval Office address Tuesday night (did I call this last month or what!?), President Obama tapped his Navy Secretary Ray Mabus as the new oil spill recovery czar. Doesn’t he have enough to do leading the Navy? More to the point, as my latest column below points out, don’t we have […]