The Denier Industrial Complex’s Molehill-to-Mountain Machine: How Conservatives Beat Progressives at Messaging | ThinkProgress

No, having let go most of its science and environment reporters, the MSM views most every such issue through the lens of politics. Since Obama walked away from climate change, it is, ipso facto, clearly a losing issue politically, and therefore it couldn’t possibly be an important issue for their readers. Obama turned the Mount Everest of issues, global warming, into the teeniest of molehills.

How the GOP Is Using Solyndra to Kill Clean Energy | Jeff Goodell | Rolling Stone

I’m not saying that the Solyndra didn’t make mistakes, or that the Department of Energy shouldn’t have been smarter in how they doled out funding for clean-energy projects. (I happened to have been traveling with Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in 2009 at around the time the Solyndra loan was being considered for a Rolling Stone profile – and I can tell you that the Department of Energy was under heavy pressure from the White House to get stimulus funding out the door as quickly as possible.)
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In fact, what’s criminal is not starting a solar company and losing hundreds of millions of dollars. What's criminal is using that failure as an excuse to kill the promise of new jobs and cook the planet.

What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

And Solyndra lands in the president’s lap. Los Angeles Times:
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Secretary Chu, meet the bus that you’re about to be thrown under. Bus, meet Secretary Chu.

Climate Change Takes a Toll on Cultures - NYTimes.com

For example, the Wayuu, who have lived for centuries in Colombia’s arid northwest, depend on the glacially fed Rancheria River as well as two rainy seasons to support a culture rich in fishing and animal husbandry. But glacial retreat means that the river is often at lower levels than it used to be, and seasonal weather is becoming both less predictable and more violent.

Wait a minute here:  If glacial melt has been feeding that river for centuries, how is that a) bad and b) my fault?