On Climate Change, Resignation, Already? - The Atlantic Politics Channel

Reactions are already flowing in thick and fast, with Andrew Revkin musing about the absence of the C-word. The Senate version is called "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act," while the earlier House one is called "American Clean Energy and Security Act" -- in both cases, leaving out any overt reference to "climate". Revkin acknowledges how that word lacks political traction and laments how "the economics of climate legislation still seems to matter more to many people than what a bill would do to limit environmental risk".

Keeping ‘Climate’ Out of a Climate Bill’s Title - Dot Earth Blog - Revkin - NYTimes.com

The avoidance of the C word in the bill’s title, “ Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,” seems at odds with the urgent arguments put forward by backers of the legislation that emissions are climbing and climate is changing more drastically than previously predicted.

Presumably the word choice is a function of polling that indicates global warming remains far down on lists of voter concerns. Earlier this year, there was a lot of re-examination of climate messages, in hopes of finding terms that could stick.
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[UPDATE, 7 p.m.: The bill contains some other semantic innovations. One is a shift from "cap and trade" to pollution reduction and investment. Another is repeated reference to " carbon pollution" in place of "greenhouse gases." The problem there, as I pointed out a few months ago, is that not all greenhouse gases contain carbon, and not all carbon-containing pollution plays a significant role in climate change.]

Boycott Nike « Green Hell Blog

Nike has quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because the Chamber opposes Waxman-Markey.

I don’t know about you, but I won’t be purchasing any Nike products for a while. If you oppose the socialist-takeover-of-America-via-global warming, you won’t either.

Windmills could kill 200,000 birds

Over one hundred years, the wind turbines may therefore destroy 800,000 birds. Their power lines will kill another large number of them (up to 500 per kilometer per annum in migration zones, according to Birdlife international), so we are talking about a death toll in excess of one million birds over 100 years ; and that is likely to be shy of reality as scientific estimates tend to be conservative, especially as regards wind farms.