Climate realism in Worcester, MA editorial

To his credit, Mr. Holdren acknowledged that geo-engineering is an idea to be approached with caution. But the administration’s full-court press for carbon taxes, alternative-energy mandates and cap-and-trade auctions for pollution credits may prove to be a massive and costly overreaction to still-uncertain science.

We urge Mr. Holdren, the administration, and all Americans, to remember that even our recent history is littered with predictions of disaster — the population bomb, mass starvation, the disappearance of oil, and an impending ice age — that have not come to pass. The conventional wisdom on global warming — which these days seems often to be a matter of shared alarm — may yet prove to be conventional folly.

Children's author: Let's pitch the climate scam to impressionable children, then follow THEIR lead

In addition, there are easy ideas listed that kids can use to help the earth, and also ways in which they can encourage others to go green. C is about conserving fuel by carpooling, E is about endangered species, L is about eating locally generated foods, X is about xeriscaping, all the way through Z — leaving a zero carbon footprint.
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Herzog is attracting some attention with this latest tome. No less a luminary than Laurie David, author and executive producer of the award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and her co-author Cami Gordon ("The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming") have praised the book. It has also garnered national attention from the Associated Press and other media.
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He hopes that the book will make a difference, not just to children, but to others around them as well.

"They can teach their parents and teachers," said Herzog. "Kids are the ones leading the way."

BBC NEWS | UK | Binding green targets in Budget

The chancellor this week will revolutionise climate policy by announcing the world's first legally-binding budgets for greenhouse gases.
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Gordon Brown has already said in a newspaper interview that he planned to ask a number of pilot councils to install charging points to help the UK begin an electric car revolution.

But some analysts fear the revolution will not take place until the price of electric cars plummets, which is unlikely to happen without huge government incentives to increase production volumes. [Via Climate Realists]