The latest TIME features a profile of U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who believes ?we?re boiling the planet.?

Here?s one of the more interesting passages:

For the Obama Administration, change begins with the low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency, pursued through mandates and incentives to get vehicles to use less fuel and get appliances, buildings and factories to use less power. It’s also pushing investment in wind, solar and other renewables, along with a smarter grid to exploit them. At the same time, Obama wants massive increases in federal energy research and development, plus a cap-and-trade regime that would accelerate private-sector advances by putting a price on carbon. The overall goal is to reduce emissions as well as U.S. dependence on foreign petro-thugs and a pesky vulnerability to volatile gas prices. To Republican critics, it’s a radical scheme to destroy jobs and raid wallets, cooked up by ?litists like Chu, who was once quoted calling U.S. gas prices too low. But Obama’s message is that saving the planet makes economic sense. “We’re trying to communicate that climate change is very, very serious, but hey, by the way, this is an incredible economic opportunity,” Chu said.

One question no climate activist ever addresses is: If climate change represents such an ?incredible economic opportunity,? why has the private sector not addressed that opportunity? Surely greedy capitalists would have found a way to make a buck on this issue within the first 10 or 20 years of global warming alarmism.

To learn how energy mandates cost jobs, click here. For more about wind power problems, click here. To learn why cap-and-trade schemes are bad, click here. For a reminder of how misguided climate policies could wreck the North Carolina economy, click here.