Earth Day Blues - Steven Hayward - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Everywhere there are signs of green fatigue. The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert, usually a first-rank alarmist, notes with understatement that "Earth Day has lost its edge and, with that, the sense that a different world is possible":
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If someone named Bush were still in the White House, the "strange passivity" at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would be cause for 100 decibel condemnation. Maybe they don't want to ponder that perhaps The One isn't into the issue.

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Comment On “Debate Over Climate Risks - Natural or Not” On Dot Earth

[Revkin] “One clear-cut lesson [of this study] seems to be that human-driven warming, for this part of Africa, could be seen as a sideshow given the normal extremes. Tell me why that thought is misplaced if you feel it is.”
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[Pielke Sr] Climate Science and our research papers have emphasized the large natural variations of climate that have occurred in the paleo-climate record and that these variations dwarf anything we have experienced in the instrumental record.

Shopfloor » Blog Archive » Power Doesn’t Run on Nothing*

Just as the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its subcommittees begin weeks of hearings on the cap-and-trade, tax-the-poor legislation, Chairman Henry Waxman has sent a letter to Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, opposing the use of federal authority to site a regional transmission line in New York State.

Well, that’s one way of guaranteeing the reduction of carbon emissions: strangle power generation and transmission. The economy dies, as well, but at least a dead economy doesn’t respirate.