Reality, One Step at a Time - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...When you hear these plaintive wails—and you will hear much more of them in coming months—be aware that this is no different from the starving performance artist insisting that he cannot make it without taxpayer subsidies in the form of NEA grants.

That is, there’s no market for what I have chosen to do for a living, so you need to tax people to pay for it. It is simply couched in ever-so-slightly less embarrassing language.

Gag Me: NPR's Ira Glass suggests that Obama will save us from carbon dioxide

NPR's program 'This American Life,' has been running a series of items related to the hopes surrounding the inauguration of president Obama. The most recent program highlights a video speech Obama made to a Los Angeles climate summit in mid-November.

Do as I Say, Not as I Drive - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

In his Inaugural speech Tuesday, President Obama stood before a throng shivering in 30-degree Washington weather—12 degrees below normal—and scolded that “we use energy to strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.” But, he went on, “we will work tirelessly to . . . roll back the specter of a warming planet.”

He then climbed into his brand new, gas-guzzling, Cadillac limo—the one based on the GMC Topkick truck platform and dubbed “The Beast” by the Secret Service—and led the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue flanked by a fleet of giant GM SUVs...

Has Obama ever read a climate realist book?: A Reading List That Shaped a President

Mr. Obama tends to take a magpie approach to reading — ruminating upon writers’ ideas and picking and choosing those that flesh out his vision of the world or open promising new avenues of inquiry.