Big Boy: A Meditation on Solar Power, Oil and Fast Food - Environmental Capital - WSJ

We got a chuckle out of the $53,648 cash grant the federal government gave to a Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in sunny southern California.

Cash for Clunkers net cost to society? $2,000 per car | The Real Revo

That means that of the $3 billion spent, $1.4 billion is just gone. It didn’t re-enter the economy. The economy is $1.4 billion smaller than it would have been without Cash for Clunkers. That means the effect was the opposite of stimulus. It didn’t stimulate economic growth, it inhibited it.

Obama UNimpressive - Max Schulz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

What is extraordinary about the president's climate-change remarks at the U.N. is how little he actually said. He repeated the tired old platitudes about a planet in crisis, which are based on the same assumptions that this crisis was caused by industrialization and the developed world — and without mentioning the benefits of economic growth of which our emissions are simply a byproduct...

William M. Briggs » Guest Post: The Case of America’s Missing Rebellion

Last night NYC was host to an event entitled, “Jobs. Justice. Climate.” The mission: bring climate change experts and union leaders to the stage to discuss the future of green jobs. The result: pledged action and a few songs by Judy Collins. However, a bigger problem presented itself at the conference. Where had America’s youth placed their rebellious, questioning, spirit?

TreeHugger Talks Climate [Scam] with Bill Clinton : TreeHugger

Clinton never once mentioned rising sea levels, more severe hurricanes, or widespread droughts (though he's certainly aware of such threats). Instead, he repeatedly hit on the opportunities to grow jobs and create wealth the climate bill presents.

Today’s Calamity: Carbon Offsets Do Not Offset the Economic Pain of Cap and Trade » The Foundry

Bryan Leyland, chairman of the economic panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, said, “I first heard about carbon trading at a conference more than 10 years ago. I got up and said ‘If I was the financial adviser to the Mafia, I would advise them to get into carbon trading.’ Nothing that has happened since then changes my opinion - rather the reverse.”