Obama counts on revenue from carbon permits

As envisioned by , the federal government will soon begin tapping into a huge new source of revenue by requiring companies to pay for the permission to emit so-called greenhouse gasses linked to global warming.

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US presidential race rivals join forces on climate

Two strong candidates for the 2008 US presidential elections have joined forces to address climate change.

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Cap and Trade or Pollution Solution?

It seems that cap and trade is on a lot of people's mind lately. Is this a pollution solution? Ha! I think not! All the cap and trade thing is gonna do is make rich and powerful people more rich and powerful.

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TARP, Taxpayers Aren't' Relieved Politicians!

Freddie and Fanny, use ARM's and lend, lend, lend, We'll bundle your sub-prime mortgages in derivatives. The rating institutions will grade them as AAA, Sell them, make money, and big bonus's we'll give.

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A folder containing documents, data and emails purportedly "hacked" from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) may be smoking gun proof of a worldwide conspiracy to exaggerate the existence, causation and threat of global warming.

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Clarice Feldman

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Cap-and-trade Requires Paying the "True Cost" of Resources

Many of our Legislators have expressed the idea that cap-and-trade is a tax that would be expensive and hurt the economy, particularly farming. That isn't necessarily so.

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A climate crisis of worldwide proportions is unfolding right before our eyes, and not even the most powerful world leaders can do anything to stop it.

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What ever happened to the acid rain worries we had in the 80's? Acid rain has been reduced by regulation and by a cap-and-trade system for sulfur and nitrogen oxides. It has not gone away as some waters have not yet recovered.

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The lead bureaucrat for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is calling scientists at the India Ministry of Environment and Forests "arrogant" for producing a 60-page study of Himalayan glaciers concluding there is insufficient evidence to say global warmi …

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Disproving The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Problem Leonard Weinstein, ScD April 25, 2009

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Minneapolis – A video of Lord Christopher Monckton warning of the impending Copenhagen climate treaty has received over 3.5 million views in 30 days, according to Minnesota Majority, the organization responsible for posting the original 4-minute excerpt of Monckton's speech.

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There's a fairly basic question about climate policy that gets asked a lot: Can a cap-and-trade program actually cut carbon-dioxide emissions? Set aside the question of cost and the endless debate over whether a mythical carbon tax would be sleeker.

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Here is video the Obama Administration does not apparently want you to see. It is a devastating critique of Obama's "Cap and Trade" idea, by two lawyers who work for the EPA.

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Dismissing concerns that the environmental assumptions underlying the bill may be fundamentally flawed, key Senate Democrats have ignored their own rules in an attempt to force an early vote on the radical Kerry-Boxer "cap-and-trade" legislation.

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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday passed a sweeping climate-change bill, with none of the panel's seven Republicans participating in the 11-1 vote.

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In a step that reflected deep partisan divisions in the Senate over the issue of global warming, Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee pushed through a climate bill on Thursday without any debate or participation by Republicans.

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Six ranking Republican U.S. senators Monday warned the head of the environment committee that pushing ahead with a vote on a landmark climate bill this week would "severely damage" the chances of passing the legislation.

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Supporters of the climate bill passed by the House and the similar bill under consideration in the Senate -- including President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders -- say that the cap-and-trade approach would guarantee greenhouse-gas reductions.

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On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic, gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN.

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We're Governed by Callous Children ----Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don't even notice.By PEGGY NOONAN.

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Copenhagen is only a few days from now. The world leaders will be gathering to essentially form a new government. Many decry our participation in this and see this as surrendering our sovereignty.

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Senator Kerry might not be the right person to sponsor this climate bill but I'm sure Senator Inhofe is not the right person to oppose it. Science, economics, and logic are not Inhofe's strong suits.

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Sen. Max Baucus said Tuesday he has "serious reservations" about climate legislation unveiled by his Democratic colleagues, signaling trouble for a proposal that is stronger in certain respects than a bill passed by the House.

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For a decade or more, the political battle over climate change has been fought largely over the validity of the science of global warming.

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Eric Poole explains why cap-and-trade is not a tax and why Warren Buffet may have made a bad call.

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