On Tuesday evening, ABC News reported that in his upcoming “jobs speech,” President Obama will call for more “green jobs stimulus” --- though this is now being called, in advance, “targeted infrastructure investment for clean energy projects.” It appears that he and his team have run out of ideas.
11:06 AM 08/16/2011
With Newsweek apparently unable, for some reason, to convince Rick Perry to sit for a photo shoot, Politico came up with an idea to knock him off stride. Specifically, this headline: “Rick Perry backed an already-climate-crusading Al Gore in ’88.” You see, like Tim Pawlenty --- whose campaign was doomed by his past advocacy of the “climate agenda” --- Perry, Politico implies, harbors a dark past as a “global warming” sympathizer. Or maybe he’s just something of a liar.
7:10 PM 06/15/2011
In today's Washington, both parties espouse reining in out-of-control spending, earmarks, crony capitalism and corporate welfare. Even once-sacrosanct ethanol subsidy schemes are teetering on the chopping block.
5:48 PM 05/19/2011
Remember that $100-billion-per-year “climate adaptation fund” that the Obama administration was so keen on at the amusingly disastrous Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009? The one that Senate Democrats bemoaned wouldn't have a funding stream with the collapse of Obama's cap-and-trade energy tax scheme?
3:06 PM 05/14/2011
Greenwire (subscription required) had an indignant piece yesterday noting that "Climate change is pestering the launch of Newt Gingrich's presidential bid as he faces what some analysts describe as a sharper standard from conservatives who doubt the world is warming." The piece reminds us that Gingrich views the state as the driver of innovation.
12:26 PM 05/09/2011
We've got a new entrant in the push to tie down the U.S. economy once and for all in the name of saving the environment, and skeptics of the green boondoggle could not have chosen a better advocate to make their case, however inadvertently.
6:31 PM 04/27/2011
In a media call this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he has seen the future, and it works. It’s “green energy” in Red China. That this green-energy absurdity continues to get so much play at such high policy levels is little short of terrifying.
5:40 PM 04/16/2011
Lee Casey and David Rivkin had a piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, "Climate Change heads to the Supreme Court." The subhead -- "Green activists hope to force electric utilities and many others to pay 'public nuisance' claims for emitting carbon dioxide" -- sets forth the basics of the case, which will be argued Tuesday to determine whether courts can assign individual liability for individual contributions to climate change (really), on the grounds of common law nuisance.
4:49 PM 03/18/2011
We have established that Obama's war on coal hinges on the assumption that 100 new nuclear reactors will be built in the U.S. in the next few years. Without the power from those 100 new nuclear reactors, Obama’s plan will cause the lights to go out. You cannot rule out half of our electricity supply and pretend otherwise.
8:07 PM 03/09/2011
Michael Mann has responded to my piece in The Daily Caller accusing Penn State of whitewashing ClimateGate. Mann's response is typically off point from the question:
9:27 AM 03/08/2011
Correction: Mann didn't "ask" Wahl to delete the emails, he just forwarded him a request to delete the emails.
12:47 PM 03/07/2011
Former Bush administration chief of the Council on Environmental Quality James Connaughton is now the government affairs head for an electric utility, Constellation Energy. But more than that, he is a media darling for his willingness to push the climate agenda on behalf of his company, which is hoping to profit from it -- at your expense -- via wealth transfers, taxes and other inefficiencies in the name of schemes that no one actually claims would detectably impact the climate.
6:05 PM 02/26/2011
There is not much mystery in the fact that Big Labor and Big Green are both hard-left. The labor and green political coalitions are called “watermelon” for a reason, even by their members.
1:49 PM 02/14/2011
Politico's “Morning Energy” update includes the following:
9:22 PM 01/25/2011
"Now, clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what they're selling. So tonight, I challenge you to join me in setting a new goal: by 2035, 80% of America's electricity will come from clean energy sources. Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all -- and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen." -- Barack Obama
8:22 PM 01/25/2011
In tonight's State of the Union speech, President Obama called for massive new “investments” in renewable energy. By that he means that he wants to transfer billions of dollars to the renewable energy industry via subsidies, while also accomplishing his previously expressed goal of making "electricity prices necessarily skyrocket."
9:44 AM 01/25/2011
Isn't one ethanol disaster enough?
2:00 PM 01/12/2011
I was just forwarded an email from ThirdWay.org calling for more federal intervention in the energy markets, further supporting politically deigned winners from the pool of losers that must petition for aid in order to exist. Which of course isn’t all that different from the old, First Way (post-FDR, that is). But it's got a Blair-ite marketing panache that's worth a try, anyway.
12:28 PM 01/03/2011
On Sunday, The Washington Post ran a long article noting (gloating?) that in 2010, "Construction did not begin on a single new coal-fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year," with plans for 38 new plants dropped and even more older plants scheduled for retirement. Apparently we're leaving that to our supposed “green” model, China, even though we have enough coal to last for centuries. This is reckless, the result of policies, threats and uncertainty out of Washington all tied to “global warming.”
1:16 PM 12/31/2010
So here’s the latest from our president's erstwhile glorious peoples’ economic model -- which he, oddly, no longer cites -- socialist Spain, where a revolt is brewing.
