It's not Palin's view about cap-and-trade that I object to, it's that her objection is offered up without any sort of facts to back up her assertions. Shouldn't we expect that from a woman who is still considered to be a leading candidate for the GOP nomination in 2012?

Congratulations, Robert K, you have stumped me.

Costly, ill advised big government programs will make it possible for coal plants to survive long into the 22nd century.

The Bush policies of fomenting technological change will make CO2 technologies moot.   That is why Sarah Palin is the smarter choice.A Costly and Unnecessary New Electricity Grid

A national interstate system for distributing power may prove an expensive boondoggle.

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22997/

What's needed instead are improved local and regional electricity transmission, the development of an efficient and adaptable smart grid, and the demonstration of technology such as carbon capture and sequestration, which could prove a cheaper way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions than transmitting power from North Dakota to New York City.

So, Holy Hosanna in the highest to these muddled thinkers of Greenspanian wit and truth!  I think the times have left them behind...and they are as those who attacked Ft. Sumer.

Additionally, more than 30,000 American scientists have signed onto a petition that states, "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate." http://www.petitionproject.org  

Those brainwashed to the point of wanting to destroy the economy to "prevent global warming" are behaving like the most primitive human beings who were duped into believing that human sacrifices would ensure them good weather. Human beings don't have the power to control climate! And killing the economy will not help the environment. Poor countries can't protect the environment. Just look at Haiti!

We pray that honest leaders – both Democrat and Republican - are able to save us from Obama's criminal cap-and-trade scam.

There are two quite separate issues here and they should never ever be confused. This article commits the fatal error of confusing them.

One is our need to conserve our carbon potential, which includes the carbon balances of the atmosphere that sustain us. I am sufficiently concerned at our abuse of our carbon potential that I no longer own cars (I used to have two), I refuse to fly, I work at a menial job close to home and I no longer buy meat (our family used to eat 28 lbs a week.) I have thus cut my carbon emissions by maybe 80% out of sense of civics (stewardship).

The second issue is the need to fight the Cap and Trade push. Cap and Trade is destructive of civics (stewardship) and is an extremely dangerous scam. If adopted universally it will lead to an historic wealth flow from the poor to the rich while enabling the latter to continue polluting and destroying remaining mineral reserves on scale. It will make global warfare almost inevitable within five years.

I recommend, for instance, the recent Rolling Stone article on Carbon Trading “Inside the Great American Bubble Machine

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To quote James Lovelock this week

“Most of the ‘green’ stuff is verging on a gigantic scam," Lovelock told the New Scientist shortly before the release of his latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia. "Carbon trading, with its huge government subsidies, is just what finance and industry wanted. It's not going to do a damn thing about climate change, but it'll make a lot of money for a lot of people and postpone the moment of reckoning.”…

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In kindness

Dave McArthur http://www.bonusjoules.co.nz

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