The Alarmists’ Dilemma - John Hood - Planet Gore on National Review Online

CNN/Money reports that cap-and-trade advocates are having such a hard time attracting support for the legislation because the Left and the Right are so far apart on energy issues. Every deal-sweetener that might tempt a Republican over to the Dark Side has the potential to repel Democrats

Al Gore’s Other Too-Radical Idea - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Over in Media Blog, I have a post on the failed business model of Al Gore's Current TV. At what point do people realize that Gore's ideas on how people should power their lives are as ridiculous as his ideas on what people would want to watch on television?

[Amusingly, Gore spends some time in the speech here ridiculing Americans for watching too much TV (31 minute mark): Whatever they're watching, it's not Gore's channel]

Standing before a sea of green-leaning Cambridge liberals (who would later scoff heartily at the suggestion that the average person watches roughly 5 hours of TV per day), Al Gore announced...

Banker Seeks to Put a Price on Nature [In lieu of a cash fee, will he accept a chance to view a rabbit?] - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Sukhdev said his study, which received the backing of the European Commission, could hasten the creation of systems that might include trading water rights, forest credits, and biodiversity credits — and that these would operate similarly to the cap-and-trade system that governs emissions of greenhouse gases in Europe.