In Memoir, Condoleezza Rice Tells of Clashes With Cheney - NYTimes.com

Ms. Rice offers several regrets. The way Mr. Bush rejected the Kyoto climate change treaty without promising to seek alternatives was a “self-inflicted wound,” she concludes, while her New York shopping trip during Hurricane Katrina was “tone deaf” for the nation’s highest-ranking African-American.

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RealClearPolitics - Cult of Global Warming Is Losing Influence

[Michael Barone] Media, university and corporate elites still profess belief in global warming alarmism, but moves toward policies limiting carbon emissions have fizzled out, here and abroad. It looks like we'll dodge the fate of the Millerites, the children's crusaders and the Mahdi's cavalrymen.

The squeezed middle: why Ed Miliband's phrase defines the new political battleground - Telegraph

Politicians are finally waking up to public concern about rising bills. Badly designed green policies are making the cost of going green far higher than it should be. Some companies are making a killing milking over-generous green subsidies, and wealthy households can cash in, too, grabbing subsidies to install solar panels and the like. For middle earners, all this spending means skyrocketing bills. The Department of Energy and Climate Change says that, by 2020, a third of your electricity bill will be green taxes. And we’ll be paying more in green taxes on top of that. George Osborne recently signalled a change of direction, but policy needs to change, too, and as quickly as possible.

The next election will be determined by the votes of the squeezed middle.