re your item #3 on Cap and Trade:
Cap and Trade is a device to ensure MORE carbon in the atmostphere, not less (I am a global warming skeptic, at least regarding an anthropogenic basis of any magnitude). Persons, companies, countries, etc. who have the right to put a certain level of carbon into the air but who have NO intention of doing so are encourage to sell that right to those who clearly WILL do so. An honest environmentalist would support simply limiting the amount of carbon each entity can put into the atmosphere, and make that amount non-alienable (i.e., you can’t sell the right).
Good point, you said it well.
Cap and Trade does not reduce emissions. Yet the enviro extremists see this as a key policy in their global warming campaign. I never understood why, but, apparently, many never think through what these actions means, or how a policy such as this doesn’t accomplish what they say they want to accomplish.