It’s that time of year again, when the profiteers from the global warming alarm industry gather in foreign climes to find another year’s reasons for refusing to accept that Kyoto is dead. This time, they’re in Montreal and Senator Bingaman is amongst them. This afternoon, he’ll be announcing to an adoring international audience his proposals for putting America on an energy starvation diet, raising energy prices and reducing living standards, while affecting the global temperature not one bit. His policy is either futile and nonsensical or a stalking horse for bigger cuts in energy use and living standards later. More details here.