Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators - WSJ.com

Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators - WSJ.com: "Mr. Crocker and other pioneers of the concept are doubtful about its chances of success. They aren't abandoning efforts to curb emissions. But they are tiptoeing away from an idea they devised decades ago, doubting it can work on the grand scale now envisioned...
'I'm skeptical that cap-and-trade is the most effective way to go about regulating carbon,' says Mr. Crocker, 73 years old, a retired economist in Centennial, Wyo."

Add crap and trade to the list of discredited and dated ideas that the triumphal leftists are trying to foist upon the US.

Stop - Don't Confuse Us With Facts

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Ignoring Science: "The true believers will not be moved by the peer-reviewed findings of Chris de Freitas, John McLean and Bob Carter, scientists at universities in Australia and New Zealand...

Their research, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, indicates that nature, not man, has been the dominant force in climate change in the late 20th century.

'The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Nino conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Nina conditions less likely' says co-author de Freitas.

'We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century. It may even be more if the period of influence of major volcanoes can be more clearly identified and the corresponding data excluded from the analysis.'"

More facts to add to the growing mountain of evidence that crap and trade is not not only economically disastrous, but environmentally insignificant.

Save the Planet - Leave Your Escalade Idling in the Driveway!

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- James Hansen's Political Science:

"'Many people don't realize that over geological time, we're really in a CO2 famine now. Almost never has CO2 . . . been as low as it has been in the Holocene (geologic epoch) — 280 (parts per million) — that's unheard of,' said Happer. He notes the earth and humanity did just fine when CO2 levels were much higher."

A lot of interesting facts and quotes in this IBD Editorial about the lunacy of the "climate change" fundamentalists. If the issue were truly the environment, these crusaders would be willing to look at the scientific facts. But it's not about the environment. It's about a huge new tax hiding under the name "cap and trade" and the power that goes along with all that new revenue.