Ten Myths of Addressing Global Warming and the Green Economy

When it became clear that it would be tough to convince American voters to drink their cap-and-trade “castor oil”, many advocates of the conventional approaches to climate change decided to tell Americans that cap and trade was not castor oil, it was a chocolate sundae. Going green would not only save them money, it would create millions of good, high paying green jobs, revitalize U.S. manufacturing and lower the U.S. trade deficit. 

The Great Beyond: Can Cancun or Cape Town cap Copenhagen?

Speaking on Sunday at the Smith School’s World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment in Oxford, UK, Dan Bodansky (pictured), an expert in climate change law, asserted that the troubles in Copenhagen were not down to dysfunctional negotiations during the conference. Instead, the problem lay with basic political disagreements that had not changed before or after the meeting. Apart from the differences of position between developed and developing countries, the US and China are both fundamentally unwilling to sign up to binding international commitments, he noted. “I am sceptical that these meetings will do better in the future,” he said.
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Christiana Figueres, the new UN climate chief who will officially replace Yvo de Boer from 1 July, has already admitted that an all-encompassing deal is ‘unlikely in her lifetime’. The discussions at the Smith School found little to refute that prognosis.

Virginia Politics Blog - U.Va. says Cuccinelli subpoena a sweeping demand that will imperil academia

It looks increasingly probable that the Albemarle Circuit Court Judge will be tasked with sorting through the claims and counterclaims about global warming research.

Reject All Energy Subsidies, Not Just the Ones for Fossil Fuels | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

President Obama was right to reject the subsidy but he did so for the wrong reasons. The Obama administration should get out of the loan guarantee business altogether. These credit subsidies are little more than financing mechanisms that allow Washington to pick energy winners and losers. Instead, energy projects should compete for capital on their own merit. If the plant cannot be built without the subsidy, it should not be built.