King Obama to Congress: write the legislation I want, or else I will simply enact it by decree

It looks like President Obama, facing the failure of his domestic agenda in Congress, is now going to attempt to pull out a victory by threatening Congress with the usurpation of its legislative powers. How? The administration has announced plans to impose sweeping controls on emissions of carbon dioxide by executive fiat, through the EPA, bypassing the legislature altogether.

Obama Aide Concedes Climate Law Must Wait - NYTimes.com

“America’s leadership is clear,” [climate czar Browner] said.

NY Times spins the greatest nonstory ever told, suckering UK Guardian into printing utter BS « Climate Progress

Memo to status quo media: We get it, already. You have already written your “Copenhagen has failed” stories, and are just waiting for the flimsiest excuse to “scoop” everyone else. Your desperation to file this as-yet-unwritten story is unbecoming and also perverse, since, as I’ve argued, prospects for a global deal have never been better. Worse, it is leading to the most dreadful herd-journalism and misreporting imaginable.

Smart meters ‘need live displays’ [how much power will it take to drive these displays?]

Real-time graphics will allow people to see how much power they use and help them cut their consumption, it says.