Cap and Trade (the Economy)

While the U. S. Congress is set to implode the economy by passing an idiotic cap and trade bill on carbon emissions in order to prevent global warming, the rest of the world is finally admitting that the issue is a load of horse manure.

One important point from the second article. Notice that science is rapidly becoming political rather than, um, scientific:

Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief.

and

A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)

I'm glad that there is no dogma in science and the scientists just go where the evidence points them, and it's nice to see that our leading scientific journals are so political...oops, I mean fair, unbiased and rigorously scientific.

And it is a surprise to anyone that Al Gore is one of the cheerleaders of what a real scientist called "the worst scientific scandal in history?"