See Jane’s Big Carbon Footprint by David Freddoso on National Review Online

Before they boss us around, shouldn’t Obama’s science team act like they believe in global warming?
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What’s your carbon footprint? Next year, it will probably be much smaller than that of Jane Lubchenco. The renowned climate-change crusader and professor of marine biology is Obama’s choice for administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

National Review Online has obtained an e-mail from Lubchenco’s husband, Oregon State University professor Bruce Menge, suggesting that the couple will contribute mightily to global warming next year after she takes the job by making frequent cross-country plane trips.

In the e-mail, Menge is enthusiastic about the appointment, but he also mentions the “the hardships it will impose on us and our academic family.” Their solution? “The plan is for her to be in WDC and me to remain in Oregon at OSU, with frequent weekend trips back and forth,” Menge writes. For the record: A single roundtrip between Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C., emits just under a ton of carbon, and a bit more than a ton if there is a layover in between. The roundtrip from the university to the airport is another 185 miles by car.

One could end there by acknowledging how understandable this is — after all, conservatives are not the only ones who place greater stock in familial bliss and human comfort than in fears of climate change and the alleged havoc it will wreak. Even a liberal marine biologist who has written extensively on the effect of global warming on marine life is not willing to let such truths inconvenience or harm her family.

Dissonance Watch - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Remember: the Obamas have made clear their intention to make Hawaii the home of their own “Western White House,” even as the most radical nominees in the administration have energy and environmental policy as their bailywick. So while the Obamas jet off to Oahu, their hand-selected alarmists will push an agenda that increases the cost of energy for the rest of us — unless and until the pixie dust that will liberate us from hydrocarbon energy somehow emerges from the $150 billion in “green jobs” pork.

So, do these people believe a single word that comes out of their mouths or, as seems reasonable, are they too bright for that — commanding an even less desirable conclusion? From putative appointees planning their cross-country commute to a cap-and-trade scheme that will be so full of loopholes it will only increase energy costs (but, a la Europe, do nothing to reduce emissions), we are continuously reminded how this issue is more about posing, posturing, and power than it is about anything else.