Let's make a [climate fraud] deal?

Obama’s White House is filled with former members of Congress and congressional staffers. They are legislative strategists and dealmakers, and these days they often use the phrase “grand bargain” when asked how they expect to achieve their ambitious agenda. The senior White House official told me that they were exploring an energy deal that would include a “serious” and “short-term” increase in domestic production—perhaps opening up for oil exploration places like the waters off the coast of California—that would appease the “Drill, baby, drill” crowd, while also adopting a cap-and-trade plan that could take effect one or two (or more) years after 2012, which is when Obama’s current plan would start. “You need to have something like T. Boone Pickens and Al Gore holding hands on a broad compromise,” the official said. Such a plan wouldn’t look much like the one in Obama’s budget proposal—more like a third cousin than like a sibling, let alone a twin—but, unlike his current plan, it could get through Congress.

Can we outsource those allegedly green jobs?  Yes we can!

It's a hell of a lot cheaper to make wind turbines in India or China, just like most manufactured goods. So forget about a glorious future of British windmill makers winning orders from around the globe.
—Lewis Page, The Register, 29 April 2009

Back Talk: Our Occasionally Ungracious President

Accusing Bush of placing ideology ahead of science is beneath the dignity of the office of the President. It is entirely unnecessary, and it suggests to me that Obama is, to some degree at least, a petty partisan. Even if he believes that Bush is the one who put ideology ahead of science (and that those who claim that we are at a "tipping point" in the fight against global warming are not the ones doing that), there is no need to say so now. Only someone who is momentarily in the grips of petty partisanship would do that.

I missed this line earlier: Al Gore's Cash Cow

Last May, we also noted that on March 1, Gore, while speaking at a conference in Monterey, Calif., admitted to having "a stake" in a number of green investments that he recommended attendees put money in rather than "subprime carbon assets" such as tar sands and shale oil.

He also is co-founder of Generation Investment Management, which sells carbon offsets that allow rich polluters to continue with a clear conscience. It's a scheme that will make traders of this new commodity rich and Bernie Madoff look like a pickpocket. The other founder is former Goldman Sachs partner David Blood.  [HT: Heliogenic Climate Change]