How long is Thomas Friedman's attention span? He seems to be losing interest in his own ridiculous "Energy Climate Era" idea

More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs [Nothing about energy or climate in this piece] - Tom Friedman - NYTimes.com

Obama should launch his own moon shot. What the country needs most now is not more government stimulus, but more stimulation. We need to get millions of American kids, not just the geniuses, excited about innovation and entrepreneurship again. We need to make 2010 what Obama should have made 2009: the year of innovation, the year of making our pie bigger, the year of “Start-Up America.”

[Remember last month, when Friedman still believed that fighting carbon dioxide was of utmost importance?] - NYTimes.com

In the cold war, we had the space race: who could be the first to put a man on the moon. Only two countries competed, and there could be only one winner. Today, we need the Earth Race: who can be the first to invent the most clean technologies so men and women can live safely here on Earth.

2008: Announcing the Energy Climate Era: Hot, Flat, Crowded

Friedman argues that those five trends — energy and resource supply and demand, petro-dictatorship, biodiversity loss, climate change, and energy poverty — have all been driven past a tipping point such that they have created a new era of history: the energy climate era.

Amazon.com: Hot, Flat, and Crowded eBook: Thomas L. Friedman: Kindle Store

"America needs an energy technology bubble just like the information technology bubble." To make such draconian measures palatable, Friedman poses a national competition to "outgreen" China, modeled on Kennedy's proposal to beat the Soviets to the moon, a race that required a country-wide mobilization comparable to the WWII war effort.