January 6, 2009
| William Yeatman, Cooler Heads Digest
In Sunday’s Washington Post, James R Lee suggests that rising temperatures will lead to a U.S.-Canada conflict over newly exploitable natural resources. That’s a preposterous prediction if there ever was one.
January 5, 2009
| William Yeatman, Cooler Heads Digest
On yesterday’s Chris Matthews Show, Joe Klein of Time reported that there is a foreign policy angle to President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Dr. Steven Chu as the Department of Energy chief. Klein claimed that Chu, a Nobel Prize winner, is revered in China, and his superstar status could help in climate change negotiations with the Chinese.
January 2, 2009
| Cooler Heads Digest
CEI Adjunct Scholar Steven Milloy just sent around an email reporting that Carol Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s new energy czar, is a member of the Socialist International, perhaps the world’s preeminent socialist organization.