In A Bad Econony, Light Bulb Ban Loses Support

A lot has changed since 2007 - the replacement bulbs are either dangerous (CFL) or not very good (everything else) - and people have seen through the clever Energy Independence and Security Act name and realized they are going to be paying a lot more and accomplish little in the way of energy independence.

Lessons in wasting money: Use more wind and solar and… emit just as much CO2 « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

One windfarm: bad; ten windfarms: useless.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Earth Has A Fever: How Can We Cool It?

This is the strangest book on global warming ever written. It starts off subtly, though dully, by recounting the evidence for and against, but all tedium is dispatched once solutions are offered. It is then the book builds momentum using beams of colored lights and otherworldly demons, ending in a place that is dimensions removed from ordinary human existence. I do not jest.

A Climate Skeptic Builds a Following of True Believers - NYTimes.com

Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, described Americans for Prosperity as operating on a political plane where opinions of conservative celebrities reinforce ideology over reality.

"I think they tend to put this in the category of faith and belief," she said. "For those people, at this moment at least, it's not a matter of facts and evidence. Quite honestly, we need to figure out how to move beyond certain barriers, because I think actually a lot of people who are questioning, or confused about, or denying the reality of climate change never actually look at the scientific evidence. [like what, specifically?] "