Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Obama's Oil Spill Speech: Running On Empty | Mother Jones
This gives pablum a bad name. Obama wants a bill. Pretty much any bill will do. But he didn't say a single word about what he himself wanted. A carbon tax? Cap-and-trade? Nuclear subsidies? Electric cars? Who knows? And as Kate Sheppard notes, he didn't breathe so much as a word about climate change.
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This is, by a long way, the most negative reaction I've ever had to an Obama speech
The Normandy Invasion For U.S. Climate Change - Forbes.com
The upcoming California midterm elections represent the equivalent of the Normandy invasion for national climate legislation: an epic battle whose outcome will likely determine the near-term fate of efforts to collar greenhouse gas emissions.
[Wait a minute- you're not worried about your grandchildren roasting in hellfire?] - ‘Climate change is good business for us’ – Jagdeo
Climate change is good business for countries like Guyana but ultimately the developed world must provide the financial support expected of it, President Bharrat Jagdeo reiterated last night.

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