What if we applied corporate standards to the “science” that is driving global warming policy?

Imagine the reaction if investment companies provided only rosy stock and economic data to prospective investors; manufacturers withheld chemical spill statistics from government regulators; or medical device and pharmaceutical companies doctored data on patients injured by their products.

Media frenzies, congressional hearings, regulatory investigations, fines and jail sentences would come faster than you can say Henry Waxman. If those same standards were applied to global warming alarmists,…

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Last week Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) became chairman of the Agriculture Committee, after Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), the previous chair, accepted the gavel at the Health, Labor, Education and Pension Committee (vacated by the passing of Ted Kennedy).

Lincoln becomes the first female to chair this powerful committee, and her ascension to the top-spot will have a big impact on the country’s energy policy.

For almost a decade, the Senate Ag Committee has been the primary benefactor of ethanol, a fuel made…

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We’re getting closer to an Armageddon climate policy scenario. Last week ten Democratic Senators told the President that they will not support any global warming legislation that does not protect domestic industry with carbon tariffs. This is a big step toward an economically ruinous trade war.

At issue is the $45 trillion climate question: Who’s gonna pay to green the global economy? The combustion of hydrocarbon fuels-which accounts for 85% of the world’s primary energy-is the “cause” of the global warming…

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