Obama and the Alternative Energy Fiasco : The president is wrong to block oil and gas production. - Reason Magazine

It's only a matter of time before President Barack Obama's vast popularity runs aground on his energy policies. In the name of saving the planet from global warming, he has delayed new oil drilling, an action that will have major political repercussions once the world economy recovers. Instead of using some the stimulus billions to produce more gas and oil, Obama's wild-eyed supporters dream of "renewable" energy derived from corn, wind, sunshine, and even grass.

With the appointment of extremists like climate czar Carol Browner and science adviser John Holdren, Obama has placed his administration's environmental policy in the hands of radicals. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposes replacing oil and coal with windmills. Yet Barron's recently reported that America would need to build 500,000 giant offshore windmills and transmission lines to produce Salazar's specified 1,900 gigawatts of electricity.
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One day the alternative energy fiasco will be studied as a vast example of waste and fraud that contributed to the collapse of the dollar and to lower living standards for most Americans. Let's hope that day comes sooner rather than later.

Deirdre Reilly: Going green full of problems - Belmont, MA - Belmont Citizen-Herald

Global warming continues to be a big topic nationally, pushed by numerous green Web sites and blogs, as well as a new generation of green cleaning products and an emphasis on legislating going green. I am what you would call cool on the whole global warming thing; all I know is that this winter I froze my unmentionables off while hearing repeatedly about the planet’s global warming plight.

"Science" Friday Archives, April 10, 2009: Obama, Congress, and Climate Change

We'll get an update on the prospects for US policy dealing with climate change. Will the government be able to make progress on climate change while the economy dominates the policy stage? We'll talk about proposals from the administration for issues such as carbon dioxide cap-and-trade, and the chances those policies have of passing through Congress.

"Science" Friday Archivesm, May 8, 2009: Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren

President Obama has pledged to re-emphasize science and technology in America -- but can the administration deliver on that pledge, especially when faced with war and a beleaguered economy? In this hour, Ira talks with John Holdren, the president's chief science adviser, about the administration's strategy for supporting research in the US, addressing climate change, and the road ahead for NASA.

In both radio shows above, it still seems to be assumed that human CO2 emissions are driving dangerous global warming.