T. Boone Pickens' Epic Wind Fail -- Seeking Alpha

It's all over the headlines: T. Boone Pickens' huge wind farm has been scrapped - or at least postponed. After warning last year that he was having difficulty securing financing for the project, and was terminating land leases in March, this week's announcement isn't a huge shock, but it does bring up some things to think about, and for Pickens' detractors, an opportunity for schadenfreude. After all, Pickens reportedly spent nearly $60 million last fall just advertising how awesome his plan was.

Obama, Reid Don't Have 60 Senate Votes for Global Warming "Cap and Trade" Bill - Peter Roff (usnews.com)

The House-passed Waxman-Markey global anti-climate change bill is an obvious job killer. So much so that, as written here previously, it authorizes (but doesn't appropriate) more than $4 billion to pay laid-off workers in the energy sector up to 70 percent of their weekly salary for a period of three years if their jobs go away because of the carbon caps.

Obama Makes a Rare Strong Stand on Global Warming, Without Result - Bonnie Erbe (usnews.com)

Still, there's no evidence that any of the leaders' discussions address the primary driver of climate change: population growth and the development it produces. President Obama cannot go near that issue, as the United States is one of the quickest-growing nations in the world, in terms of our rate of population growth. Our population has nearly doubled in my lifetime and our rate of increase is gaining, not winding down—-that due largely to mass immigration.

[Now with 100+ comments] A thought experiment for the global-warming deniers | Jay Bookman

I want to try to take the temperature, so to speak, of the global-warming deniers on this blog and elsewhere. To do so, let’s run a little thought experiment:

It seems to me that from a policy angle, the climate-change debate comes down to a risk/benefit analysis. And in such an analysis, you first ask yourself two questions:

How bad is the projected outcome?

How likely is that outcome to become reality?