WSJ's Holman Jenkins, Jr. on Al Gore's salesmanship of cap and trade: 'Sincerity is no substitute for disinterestedness.' | GORE LIED

…we have been convinced that the scientific questions are interesting and irrelevant, since it was never in the cards that Western societies (or Brazil or India or China) would sacrifice economic growth for the uncertain benefits of fighting climate change. Unable to do anything meaningful about climate change, policy would therefore default to satisfying the demand of organized interests for climate pork.

Isn’t that, however much he may be distracted by feelings of sincerity, exactly the economic function of Mr. Gore today?

Green home makeover will cost £15,000, says climate change watchdog - Telegraph

Home owners will need to spend up to £15,000 on an energy efficiency makeover if the government is to meet its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions, the head of Britain's climate change watchdog has said.

Nuclear alone won’t keep the power flowing | Dieter Helm - Times Online

Britain’s energy policy is an incoherent mess. We need a simple and explicit carbon tax to fund the greenest alternatives

American Thinker: A Lesson in Biofuels from Tennessee

Now, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel, the Biofuels Initiative has reported that it is not yet producing 5 million gallons of switchgrass fuel. In fact, according to published reports, it would seem that it is not producing any fuel at all.