Were they spinning or lying? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Now every one of the above says we can wait, after all, and the Government’s emissions trading scheme has been delayed a year and weakened. Why would you trust a single thing these people say?

American Thinker Blog: 'Environmentalism' Dying?

Environmentalism is suffering a crisis of both image and reality. Two news stories highlight this trend.

American Thinker: Hyping hysteria

It would be only an intellectual exercise one that would surely pass like the others had it not been for what politicians try to do. On April 17 the United States EPA declared finally what many had hoped and others dreaded: that there is "overwhelming and compelling evidence" that "greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endanger the public health of current and future generations." It went on to adopt the most strident and alarmist presumed catastrophes from climate change such as rising sea levels, more wildfires, more hurricanes and degraded air quality.

Just trying to change from fossil fuels to wind and solar, which is not just economically but physically impossible, will cost unbelievable amount of money and lots of suffering. Ultimately, it will simply not happen.

In the meantime do not underestimate the power of the press and politicians to use alarmism to affect this "change." What do not change are the transparent benefits from alarmism.

American Thinker: Obama's Car Team Looks like an Edsel

America has a former New York Times journalist, Steven Rattner, as our auto czar, a man with zero auto industry expertise. And it shows.
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The Volt has been roundly criticized as an also-ran, running up billions of dollars and absorbing management focus-both of which should have been directed towards running GM more efficiently. The Volt is an uneconomic mess of a car . Rube Goldberg is laughing up a storm up there. But such a car is an emblem of sophistication among the ne plus ultra of Democrat elites, especially city dwellers in New York City or Los Angeles who do not need to bother with economics for the little man.

Yet the Volt is a favorite car of Barack Obama, as a "green car" and our salvation from the threat to the planet posed by gas-powered cars. The Volt has become a totem and a talisman for the Obama presidency; a symbol for a presidency that is based on symbols.