What are your thoughts? Is global warming an economic stimulus,an unreliable driver for investment,neither or both? (Editing/video by Courtney Hoffman,pictures by Kim White). Post a comment | …[...]
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As Congress considered the Waxman-Markey “ cap-and-trade ” bill,President Obama rallied House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats at the White House. In making a point,he gestured to Abraham Lincoln’s portrait and said,…[...] Ten Senate Democrats recently expressed their concern over cap and trade legislation that would dramatically increase energy prices and particularly hurt the country’s manufacturing base. In a letter sent to the White House,…[...] Now Politico reports that cap-and-trade will be off the agenda as well. The arm-twisting required for ObamaCare means that the White House will have no political capital for any other fights that could split the party:…[...] Five years after his White House bid fell short by 20 electoral college votes,the Massachusetts Democrat has emerged as one of his party’s leading voices in trying to win passage of a major global warming and energy bill. …[...] . ANALYSIS BARACK OBAMA went into the White House determined to lead the world on climate change,but he is facing a very rough passage. His administration is trying to navigate a flimsy vessel through an impossibly narrow channel between two rocky shoals [...] SHIKHA DALMIA:Global Warming:White Man’s Problem:Why poor countries won’t commit to binding emissions cuts. “In fact,there is a perfectly good reason developing countries are unwilling to act on climate change:What they are being …[...] Jane Hamsher details the extremely aggressive tactics the White House and House leadership used to coerce liberal environmentalist members to vote for the cap-and-trade bill despite their belief that it helped polluters more than it did …[...] “The observed climate changes that we report are not opinions to be debated,”said Jerry Melillo,one of the chief authors of a White House-released study predicting global warming Armageddon. “They are facts to be dealt with.”…[...] Amid pre-summer frosts and hailstorms,the White House this week released a sky-is-falling report on global warming that outdoes even Al Gore in predicting doomsday scenarios. “Heat waves will become more frequent and intense,”the …[...] | |||||