As I write this, the snow of our second blizzard-like storm of the week is piling up outside.

Ironically, President Obama picked this week to announce the formation of a new global warming bureaucracy within the Department of Commerce. The news conference announcing this new "climate service" had to be canceled due to our D.C. area blizzard.

Today AFP blasted the White House for quietly removing the estimated cap-and-trade “climate revenues” that it showed in its 2010 budget from the new 2011 blueprint, while remaining committed to enacting an expensive cap-and-trade energy tax.

Last night in Fargo, at least 220 grassroots activists cheered on North Dakota’s Public Service Commissioner, Kevin Cramer, as he explained just how badly Cap-and-Trade would hurt their state by killing energy sector jobs, increasing gasoline prices to $5 or $6 a gallons and raising utility bills for families by almost double. This scenario is not unique to North Dakota. It is a real possibility for all of us if we do not defeat this massive energy tax.