Much has been made of President Obama's call for accelerated pursuit of clean energy in his State of the Union speech, which he managed without once assembling any syllables sounding remotely like "climate change" or "global warming" or any of that sort of red meat to inspire the elected right wing in Congress to do any more sneering than it already is.
If you can navigate past the pay wall, the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, stalwart liberal, Jimmy Carter speechwriter, and frequent anchor for ToftheT commentary, does a nifty job sort-of-laying-into the President for his...