Van Jones to California's Rescue? - Victor Davis Hanson - The Corner on National Review Online

There are, as Harris notes, terrible problems on the vast West Side, but they originate, as Harris does not note, from both a drought and vast cut-offs of water supplies to hundreds of thousands of once-rich irrigated acres — due to northern Californian environmental interests who assume their 19th-century John Muir fantasy is compatible with 37 million who each day need safe, accessible, and cheap food.
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But in the author's opinion, California's solar power, slow-food movement, and regulations to stop global warming are saving the state.
This article would be good satire, if it were not so tragically unhinged.

France Backs Battery-Charging Network for Cars - WSJ.com

PARIS -- The French government Thursday said it plans to spend €1.5 billion (about $2.2 billion) on creating a battery-charging network for electric vehicles as part of a broader state plan to encourage the development of clean vehicle technology and battery manufacturing.
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The government will make the installation of charging sockets obligatory in office parking lots by 2015, and new apartment blocks with parking lots will have to include charging stations starting in 2012.
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The plan involves setting up a battery manufacturing factory at a Renault SA facility at Flins, west of Paris, at a cost of €625 million, of which €125 million will be contributed by the French state's strategic investment fund.

SNL: barry’s accomplishment: “jack & squat”

[fake Obama] I don’t see why the right is so riled up….I’m sure the left would have thought I would have addressed at least one of the following things by now: global warming…no, immigration reform…no, gays in the military…no, limits on executive powers…nope, torture prosecutions…no.

So looking at this list I’m seeing two big accomplishments: jack and squat.

I have a few accomplishments: cash for clunkers stimulated the economy…of Japan,

Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber: Memo To Bill Maher: Young People Understand the Climate Change Stakes

[Maher] "The sad part of it is that people are more skeptical of global warming now than they were ten years ago. Especially young people. This is really scary. Young people in great numbers think it's a hoax..."
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It seems that one fifth grader, named Ben, spoke for his entire generation when he offered the following succinct, four-part agenda for Obama's first term: "No school on Fridays. Less homework. Stop the war. Stop global warming."