Why Health Care Reform Beat Out Climate | The New Republic

I don't see the effort to reduce greenhouse gasses as having failed. I think it's simply switched forms. Basically, the Obama administration tried to craft a bill that did the most efficient job of reducing the costs of limiting carbon emissions. That having failed, the new approach is to do the most efficient job of hiding the costs of reducing emissions. Thus we have a combination of subsidies for green energy and EPA regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. Those measures are popular because, despite being less efficient than a straightforward tax or carbon cap, they obscure the costs to consumers. Indeed, if I were a vulnerable elected official, I might prefer to push the policy mix in this direction as well.

Britain must adapt to 'inevitable' climate change, warns minister - Green Living, Environment - The Independent

Britons must radically change the way they live and work to adapt to being "stuck with unavoidable climate change" the Government will caution this week, as it unveils a dramatic vision of how society will be altered by floods, droughts and rising temperatures.