SOLARGATE: Obama’s Big Green Scandal That Won’t Go Away « 21st Century Wire

With Enron it, was pure hubris and greed, combined with opportunity. With Solyndra, it is green hubris and green greed, combined with opportunity. When you get right down to it, they are no different.

Gore Takes Climate Change Slide Show Around the World in 24 Hours - NYTimes.com

"The Vatican has the goal of being the world's first carbon-neutral country," said Gore. "They have two advantages: They are very small, and God is on their side."

The slide-show marathon did draw some criticism, both for the method and the message. Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, said the program was largely a wasted effort. "I think it's sad to see them spend so much time and energy on something on something that's not true," said Harris, who described his group as offering a "climate-realist perspective." "This extreme weather thing is not a function of temperature," he said.

The Blackboard » Reflections on climate reality: what people are saying.

The website’s counter indicated 8.5 million people viewed the site while the presentations were streamed live.

The counter did seem to indicate that. But it’s worth noting possible evidence the number of views may have been closer to 1/2 million.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Owning Solyndra

Kevin Drum makes a pleas for liberals to, in effect, rally around Solyndra and be proud of the investment. I am sure Republicans would give the same advice to liberals. I want to look at a few of his arguments.

First, for libertarians like myself, the argument that Republicans did it too, or the Republicans started it, are a non-starter. In particular, I actually thought the Obama Administration’s attempt to blame Bush for Solyndra was an Onion article, since its almost a caricature of this administrations refusal to take responsibility for anything. Unlike Republicans, I don’t see this so much as an Obama failure as a government failure, and I don’t really care if it is of the red or blue flavor.