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BO’s Vampire Economics

First the good news, Jim Mann,Daily Inter Lake [1] reports the death of Algore’s pet theory, anthropogenic global warming:

The prevailing conclusion at the New York conference, according to Berry, is that “the global warming hypothesis is dead, scientifically

Now the bad news, the Obama administration never got the memo, Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post [2]:

The Environmental Protection Agency sent a proposal to the White House on Friday finding that global warming is endangering the public’s health and welfare, according to several sources, a move that could have far-reaching implications for the nation’s economy and environment.

John Steele Gordon, Commentary Magazine [3], on the effects of Cap and Trade:

That means that any increase in overall demand will increase the price of energy, and thus, in a feedback loop, nearly everything else. That will damp down demand. The more the economy tries to speed up, the more the carbon tax will work to prevent it from doing so

Anthropogenic global warming is a hoax.  The carbon tex will kill the economy.   No perosn would propose killing the ecommoy to fix a problem then simply does not exist, unless they were stark raving mad or punch drunk [4].