In reviewing a new book that makes a case for global warming alarmism, TIME?s primary in-house alarmist, Bryan Walsh, writes:
[T]he Gulf spill changed the country’s energy politics: witness President Obama’s June 2 announcement that the only way to get off oil is to “finally [put] a price on carbon.” If he ends up doing that, it will be thanks to an often quixotic campaign waged by a band of environmentalists and surprisingly green businessmen–a battle Eric Pooley describes masterfully in The Climate War. [Emphasis added.]
Surprising? Only if you pay no attention to the way crony capitalism works.