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Cap and Trade: The government’s new pet market
Submitted on 6.29.2009
While most Americans are distracted by the situation in Iran and the vital current healthcare debates, Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are attempting to rush through one of the most draconian realignments of energy policy in the nation’s history. This legislation proposes a cap on carbon emissions with permits that are tradable between companies. Known as “cap and trade,” it’s better described as “cap and tax.”
Will Cap and Trade Pass Congress?
Submitted by Jim Lindgren on 6.23.2009
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on cap-and-trade this week. The bill seeks to lower US per capita cabon emissions to levels below those of the US colonial period.
Despite our efforts, it's hard to keep nature down
Submitted by Neil Reynolds on 6.12.2009
The Laotian rock rat isn't a rat at all. It's a squirrel that walks upright on its hind legs and lives in limestone crevices rather than in trees. Based on the rock rat's fossil record, scientists concluded that it went extinct 11 million years ago, more or less. Thus it was big news, a few years back, when one of these long-lost rodents waddled through a food market in Thailand and ended up in a stew pot.
Global warming plan is pie in sky
Submitted by Jonah Goldberg on 6.11.2009
Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon... ," grab your wallet.
Analyzing the politics of climate change
Submitted by Blake Yount on 6.9.2009
We hear it every day. News headlines read: “Global Warming Biggest Threat of 21st Century, Experts say.” (businessweek.com. May 13th, 2009. Gardner, Amanda). News anchors provide us with a choice, either we believe the scientists that support global warming hypotheses, or we reject science as a whole.
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