Revkin suggests that Obama's insane climate video might need some "tweaks in the language" - NYTimes.com

Many climate scientists would undoubtedly suggest some tweaks in the language in the statement — the line about “stopping climate change,” for instance. Keep in mind that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year concluded that a freeze on global emissions now wouldn’t have a measurable impact on warming rates for several decades. And the statement about “storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season” is hard to square with the science on hurricanes in a warming world, which has gotten more nuanced of late, as we’ve explored here a few times.

Hit & Run > Obama Is Still Pushing Green Snake Oil - Reason Magazine

In a taped speech shown to attendees at a climate change conference in California this week, Barack Obama continued trying to distract Americans from the enormous cost of making substantial reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by promising "five million new green jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced." Not only is this number pulled out of thin air; it's nothing to be happy about. As I've noted, the manpower required to transform the economy so that greenhouse gas emission targets can be reached is a measure of the cost involved. Obama makes it seem as if we should try to maximize this cost, promising that green jobs will "steer our country out of this economic crisis."

That is pretty much the opposite of the truth. [Via Planet Gore]