Is Senate Energy Bill a Cap-and-Trade Cop-Out?

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Recently I was driving across the country. I have an outside air temperature reading on my dash. I noticed that, day or night, whenever I neared a mid-size or larger town the outside temp would go up 1 or 2 degrees. Drive out the other side of town and within a mile it would drop back down. That happened dozens of times over a period of days.
It's no wonder, really. After all, you have to take into consideration all the heat holding concrete, asphalt, roofs, buildings and engines, motors and lights generating heat.
Gee, I wonder if that might have an affect on temperature recording stations across the nation and around the world. Nah.... couldn't do that....

R.L. Schaefer of CA 9:19PM July 27, 2010

Mr. Terpstra-
The fact is, EPA repeatedly relied upon the IPCC in their Technical Support Document (http://epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment/downloads/TSD_Endangerment.pdf). In that report over half the cites are to the IPCC.
-- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA.com

Rmoen of NV 5:53PM July 27, 2010

Our own Environmental Protection Administration has determined at almost certainty that Carbon Dioxide emissions are a threat to our species.

Dave Terpstra of WI 12:36PM July 27, 2010

Daily I read editorials, comments and letters-to-the-editor from all over the nation. When the House passed the cap-and-trade bill it was maybe 2-to-1 against cap-and-trade, opinion now is off the charts against it. The Senate was wise to bury this complex and risky legislation.
Frankly, I don't see Americans supporting cap-and-trade or any CO2 regulation until we have our own Climate Truth Commission. We now largely out-source our climate science to the United Nations, a political organization advancing their "consensus" view that CO2 drives global warming. The problem is, their view is neither a consensus and can't possibly be 100% correct because they don't factor-in clouds and solar activity:
The FACTS:
1) The 600 climate scientists who worked on the UN's Climate Change 2007 report never voted on the 'drives' issue. That conclusion was reached by only about 50 scientists and UN bureaucrats.
2) The UN has a huge conflict of interest. The 'Kyoto Protocol' is their's. They have a vested interest in demonizing CO2.
3) Thousands of knowledgeable people and climate scientists worldwide tell us the UN is wrong.
4) Past climate changes--100s of them--were driven by Mother Nature, not mankind. Yet, the UN took Mother Nature off the table when they limited their evaluation to 'climate change caused by human activity'.
5) There is no 'smoking gun.' The proof that CO2 drives global warming is circumstantial.
6) The UN treats unproven climate projections as 'fact', yet UN forecasts for the last 10 years do not fit what actually happened.
7) The UN used faulty data to bolster unwarranted findings in the past.
The United States needs our own objective, transparent climate commission to think-through global warming. We need the advice of a bi-partisan Climate Truth Commission before we burden our economy with expensive energy. Both sides of the man-made global warming issue should welcome such an approach. ...each is so sure of themselves.
-- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA.com

Rmoen of NV 11:30AM July 27, 2010