Newsweek: Amusing stuff from alarmist Daniel Lyons

On Climate Change, U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Full of Hot Air: Newsweek: Daniel Lyons

See, this is the new strategy from the climate change obstructionists. Instead of saying climate change is a bunch of hooey, and threatening to put climate science on trial, as the chamber was trying to do only two months ago, now they're playing a more sophisticated game -- one that comes straight out of Orwell. It goes like this: Gee whiz, we really are sooo concerned about climate change, we're really serious about it, and we have all these great ideas about how to address climate change and we really want to study the issue and embrace change and lead America into the 21st century ... blah blah blah. But really what they want to do is drag their feet and make sure nothing gets done.

Daniel Lyons | Newsweek.com

Prior to Forbes, Lyons was a freelance journalist covering technology, from 1990-98 and senior writer at PC Week from 1987-90. He was a copy editor at the Boston Herald from 1987-87 and was a reporter at the Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Mass. From 1983-86.

Lyons earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1992 and a BA from Bradford College.

Green Energy Should Trump Politics: Daniel Lyons | Newsweek

It's not because our scientists aren't brilliant. They are. But look at what they're up against: a noisy babble of morons and Luddites, the "Drill, baby, drill" crowd, the birthers, and tea-party kooks who have done their best to derail health-care reform and will do the same to any kind of energy policy. Holdren has an undergraduate degree from MIT and a Ph.D. from Stanford; he has won countless awards for his work on nuclear proliferation, climate change, alternative energy, and population growth. But now he must sell his ideas to people who couldn't pass high-school algebra—and who believe they know more than he does.