MIRKARIMI, PELOSI BRING GREEN SOLAR TECHNOLOGY TO SAN FRANCISCO WESTERN ADDITION

Pelosi said the project will be one of the first from the new administration that promises to turn the country’s economy around with the use of environmentally friendly technology. “Unless we go green, we won’t have jobs,” Pelosi warned.

I see some nice refreshing bottled water in one of the accompanying pictures.

Paul Driessen: Global warming "Bait-And-Switch"

In the political arena, however, bait-and-switch is often rewarded, not punished – especially in the case of global warming alarmism. Instead of fines or jail time, politicos get committee chairs, presidencies, speaking fees and Nobel Prizes. Scientists and bureaucrats receive paychecks, research grants and travel stipends for Bali. Activists get secretive government payments for "public education" campaigns. Companies get government contracts, subsidies and seats at the bargaining table. And all are lionized or canonized for supporting Climageddon theories and policies.

Global warming bait-and-switch starts with simple statements that few would contest – then shifts seamlessly to claims that are hotly disputed and supported by little or no evidence.

The Reference Frame: Boston Globe: Where's the beef of AGW?

Jeff Jacoby points out that the cool and cooling weather in recent months and years went almost unnoticed, even though otherwise analogous warm and warming weather in the recent past was greeted with explosions of hype.

He also argues that by insisting that there is no debate, Al Gore behaves as a religious zealot - which is not a good starting point to understand where global warming has gone. On Sundays (when Jacoby's article was printed), the circulation of Boston Globe is 525,000. Not bad and better than 350,000 on the other days.