The SideTrack: On John Coleman and John Christy

So, two John's today. John #1 thinks climate change is complete fabrication, not happening at all. John #2 thinks climate change is real, and possibly man-made, but a super duper good thing, like Christmas. Makes... sense?

That's all for now. Tomorrow's speakers will be Frank Conte of Beacon Hill Institute, and John Charles of the Cascade Policy Institute. We'll have the dirt on them as well.

[Extremely puzzling] global warming ad campaigns heat up - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

The United Steelworkers Union and the Environmental Defense Action Fund are running a campaign highlighting the connection between climate change and new jobs. The ads are backed by the Blue Green Alliance, a national coalition of major labor union and environmental organizations.

“From steelworkers to machinists to engineers, we can put millions of Americans to work building the clean energy economy,” said David Foster, executive director of the Blue Green Alliance, which is dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy.

The campaign features John Fetterman, the mayor of Braddock, Pa., pushing for a carbon cap as a way of generating jobs in his small, struggling steel town.

The Case Against Local Environmentalism - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

In my own field of housing, a similar phenomenon occurs when some environmental groups put their own local interests ahead of [the] global warming [fraud].