RISING ONCE AGAIN FROM THE BOWELS OF CONGRESS:  LATEST CLIMATE BILL (updated: May 16, 2010)

The bill has been published as of Thursday the 13th.  initial comments from the American Thinker.

Bloomberg reports, “Climate-Change Bill Avoids ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Tag in U.S. Senate.”    

“Now Graham, John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut are preparing to introduce a compromise bill in the Senate. They have indicated it will include a mandatory, declining limit on carbon emissions in the electric-power industry while giving utilities the right to buy and sell carbon allowances.   “The senators aren’t calling it ‘cap-and-trade,’ though. The legislation is about ‘pricing carbon,’ Graham told reporters in Washington last month.”  (emphasis added)  

 EPA’s definition of cap-and-trade:

“A cap and trade program first sets an aggressive cap, or maximum limit, on emissions. Sources covered by the program then receive authorizations to emit in the form of emissions allowances, with the total amount of allowances limited by the cap. Each source can design its own compliance strategy to meet the overall reduction requirement, including the sale or purchase of allowances, installation of pollution controls, and implementation of efficiency measures, among other options.” (emphasis added)  

The sponsors of the bill can call it a Clean Energy and Security Bill (tried that), the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Bill (tried that), or the Clean American Jobs and Low Energy Prices Bill (guess for the new name) but it won’t change the fact that it is going to cap emissions and require companies  trade emission credits (for at least utilities and manufacturing). 

It is therefore, at root, a cap-and-trade bill.  And as we all know, under President Obama’s cap-and-trade plan, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.   It is still unclear how the bill will reduce emissions from transportation, the source of 33% of energy-related emissions.  A gas tax (whether imposed on consumers or to the companies themselves) would be ineffective.

All the above rate increases and taxing is in response to the false premise of man-caused global warming. 

ACTION PLAN:  To be posted after bill is published, and we have had a chance to review it.  Hang in there!  We want to get it right.  The bill has been published as of Thursday the 13th.  Initial comments from the American Thinker.

The Weatherman, Dexter Wright, Digs Deep into the Climategate   

Climategate Fraud Investigation

Michael Mann’s “Hockey Stick” challenged by Virginia Attorney General.

Global Warming on Trial

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot filing in federal court a challenge to the EPAs’s endangerment finding stating that it was based on the now discredited IPCC report–fraudlent science!

The 9 mm Won’t Save You!

Whoever leaked the incriminating e-mails deserves a medal for saving the U.S. economy from certain ruin.

 Climategate:  Is It Criminal 

The British Parlament has convened hearings to investigate East Anglia University and the Climate Research Unit to uncover “unethical” and ”illegal” activities. 

 Climategate:  Just Sign on the Dotted Line

The Jones Gang, “Forget credentials and just get signatures.”  Opponents speak out and have been speaking out:  Heidelberg Appeal (4000 scientists,72 Nobel Prize winners), Leipzig Declaration (reputable scientists), and the Oregon Petition (31,000 scientists).  And still the Jones Gang persists!

 Climategate: The Truth Hurts When It Hits You in the Head

Evidence that the climate computer models have failed.

Climategate: How to Hide the Sun

An effort to distort and discredit solar impact on climate.  Solar flares track with global warming.  

Climategate and the Migrating Arctic Tree Line

A case “discrediting proxy tree data” in the Mann “hockey stick” graph depicting global warming. 

Climategate’s Stubborn Facts

Distorting facts that are inconvenient to a desired conclusion.