In fact carbon particulates from coal plants probably filter the sun and reduce the heating.

I'm not for coal though because of all the mercury it spits out. This is very very toxic and is landing on our crops. And the lack of other nutrients make it hard to eliminate this from our systems, causing a host of problems. Lack of Vit D because of fear of the sun for example. See vitamindcouncil.org for an eyeopener.

Anyway a broad knowledge and perspective is important to have here.

CSA is not merely less than perfect. It's a flat-out fraud. It is nothing posing as something, which is the *only* thing worse than nothing at all. We can duke out the details if you'd like. But in your heart of hearts, how can you take any legislation that barely reduces US carbon emissions below 1990 levels by 2050 seriously?

Forty years after the Clean Air Act was passed, zombie coal plants continue to run open stack in the United States. I might take your argument seriously if I believed that we had forty or fifty years to tweak fatally flawed climate legislation. But we don't. We have a decade at most to get serious. Fundamentally dishonest crap like CSA isn't fixable in a dynamic political environment. It just creates more work undoing the damage that it will cause, work that is far better directed towards a serious legislative effort. At best, CSA is merely a waste of time we don't have.

EDF has an arrogant habit of assuming that they've always got the right answer, often making it harder to get to a good answer impossible by refusing to engage in a serious conversation. But this particular crisis is too dire for politics as usual. Please, please reconsider your position on this one. It matters too much. CSA cannot be allowed to pass, and your intrepid efforts to defend this turkey destroys your credibility while wasting your time and ours.