As we’ve been issuing virtual screams, it looks like cap and trade is in mortally wounded shape. So the vigilance of the economically minded and global warming skeptics needs to focus on regulatory efforts through the Environmental Protection Agency.

As Mark Tapscott of the indispensable Washington Examiner writes:

As Energy and Environment Climatewire’s Jessica Leber reports today, the Obama administration has proposed a modest cut of $300 million from EPA’s overall $10 billion budget for 2011, the amounts allocated for global warming related regulatory and other activities is up, to $1.1 billion, or about 12 percent of the agency’s expenditures.

A total of $56 million will go to global warming regulations, while another $169 million of the $1.1 billion total will be spent on efforts directly aimed at reducing the greenhouse gases global warming advocates like former Vice President Al Gore claim are responsible for causing dangerous temperature increases in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Ugg. To the rare few Americans who maintain a balanced view of politics, it has to be clear by now that the forces of global warming alarmism are in this for a quasi-religious cause and the possibility to control billions or trillions of money — and probably both.

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