Here comes Team Obama's carbon tax | Fox News

The Treasury Department’s Office of Environment and Energy has finally begun to turn over documents about its preparations for a carbon tax in response to transparency warrior Chris Horner’s Freedom of Information Act request. The documents provide solid evidence that the Obama administration and its allies in Congress have every intention of implementing a carbon tax if we fail to stop them.

[Wait, I thought Tom Friedman told us that we should model the U.S. after "green" China]: As Pollution Worsens in China, Solutions Succumb to Infighting - NYTimes.com

A haze akin to volcanic fumes cloaked the capital, causing convulsive coughing and obscuring the portrait ofMao Zedong on the gate to the Forbidden City.

Twitter / mark_lynas [No longer throwing pies in Lomborg's face?]

Think @BjornLomborg makes a good point on energy access & the pointlessness of Earth Hour lights off: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/project_syndicate/2013/03/earth_hour_is_all_wrong_we_need_more_electricity_not_less.html …

Harvard Paper Examines Bill McKibben as Journalist, Public Intellectual and Activist | Center for Social Media

As I describe in the paper, McKibben is an example of a “knowledge journalist,” a special class of public intellectual who writes journalistically, but who unlike most of their journalistic peers specializes in the translation of complex subjects, often championing specific policy positions or causes.