How the Green Iron Triangle Works - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit, Mich. — Like Tennessee, Michigan is shivering through an unusually cold summer — at the same time that Rep.Gary Peters (D., Mich.) and his Democratic-delegation pals have voted to impose a massive energy tax on their own constituents to solve, ahem, global warming.

Senseless? Not if you follow the money. Let Rep. Peters, the Detroit Three automakers, and green activist Cathy Zoi demonstrate the Iron Triangle.

William McGurn: Let’s Face It: Obama Is No Post-Partisan - WSJ.com

Six months into the president’s term, you don’t read much about this post-partisan future anymore. It may be because on almost every big-ticket legislative item (the stimulus, climate change, and now health care), Mr. Obama has been pushing a highly ideological agenda with little (and in some cases zero) support from across the aisle. Yet far from stating the obvious—that sitting in the Oval Office is a very partisan president—the press corps is allowing Mr. Obama to evade the issue by coming up with novel redefinitions.

Developing countries have no obligation under UNFCCC for mandatory emission cuts - Carbon Offsets Daily

All developing countries included India have no obligation under the UN convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol to make any mandatory emission cuts.

Environment » Blog Archive » Is Bill Clinton’s climate legacy a problem for Obama? | Blogs |

Many people might have thought the worst scorecard was by George W. Bush, who gave up plans to implement the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, signed by the Clinton administration but never submitted to a hostile Senate for ratification.

But emissions rose by more than twice as much in the Clinton years, when climate campaigner Al Gore was vice president, as during the combined years when two Bush presidents, father and son, were in the White House since 1990.