Senators receptive as Gore pushes for climate change legislation this year - San Jose Mercury News

WASHINGTON — For Al Gore and Congress, two years and a presidential election make a big difference when it comes to tackling global warming.

The bottom line: less theatrics, more substance and, well, a warmer reception. Even Republican senators seemed prepared to accept the aggressive course of action Gore proposed.

W. S. Jevons (1865) on Windpower (Memo to Obama, Part I) — MasterResource

The most important book ever written on energy economics was published in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons, The Coal Question (London: Macmillan and Company). This classic is out of print but available in its entirety on the Internet. It is well worth reading. The book marks the birth of an entire discipline, and Jevons’s remarkably sophisticated treatment of energy sustainability remains pertinent today. In a real sense, the Obama approach to energy was refuted by the insight of W. S. Jevons almost 150 years ago.

Jevons makes four points regarding windpower...