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The parent here isn't a troll either -- please people just because you don't agree with an opinion doesn't mean you should mod it as troll!

That said it is a leveling off of the warming accompanied with a steadily increasing CO2 that is causing the heartache. This doesn't "prove" that AGW is a farce as many are saying, but it does raise a lot of questions. None of this levelling was predicted by the current models, even the head of the IPCC agrees that the models need to be re-worked. So if heating is caused by the increase in CO2, where is the heat going? What other mitigating factors are there that aren't being factored into the models?

Actually it was done because they were about to lose the 60th vote in the Senate and so had to cram it through before they lost the ability to go against the will of the people and pass it.

It does go a little deeper than that. Not only do they need proof of insurance they need to know the relative value of the policy so they can tax you accordingly.

I agree!

Because it is the right thing to do?

This would be one of the few times that I agree with the 9th circuit, and I'm not that far left. Maybe SC will leave this one be.

problem is in the article they are talking about scaling beyond a few terawatts world wide.

umm except they are doing both. Look up Quantitative Easing 1, 2, and 3 several trillion dollars printed over the last 5 years.

Except that separate trust fund is empty ... has been for years because the congress stole the money and replaced it with IOU's.

The reason minimum-wage jobs are like that is more than likely because of raises to the minimum wage.

That's not true -- sugar tariffs are in place to protect the Hawaiian sugar cane market.

In addition to the points made by balsy2001, it says that nuclear cannot compete with solar etc, but the problem with that is that nuclear is proven baseline load and solar and wind can never be!

Well if you state it as a fact then maybe you could get sued for slander / libel. But if you say I think your mother is a whore that's perfectly legal because everyone is entitled to their opinion.