The president's plan is about wealth distribution from red to blue states, not about carbon dioxide

It is time to expose the flawed jobs reasoning behind President Obama's new carbon plan. 

You just can't out-gloom an environmentalist. The Atlantic invited some luminaries to answer the question "How and when will the world end?" Some contributions were funny. Others simply plausible.

President Obama’s recently proposed policies will do little to combat climate change — but they will do much for his political and economic objectives.

President Obama, speaking on climate-change at Georgetown University on Tuesday, invoked science again and again. But the policies he pushed had less to do with the findings of physics than the wishlists of corporate lobbyists.

Solar radiation management (SRM) appears to offer at least some capacity to offset the warming caused by rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. A workable SRM system could offer a highly useful backup and supplement to current climate policy options.

The following is a letter from AEI visiting scholar Ben Zycher to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-OR., and Sen. Brian Schatz, D-HI, of the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change in response to their April 3, 2013, request for comments and observations on the draft legislation for imposition of a carbon pollution fee upon large emitters.

The following is a letter from AEI visiting scholar Ben Zycher to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., of the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change in response to their request for "ideas for action the federal government can take to address climate change." The letter from...

While I’d love to think that conservatives and environmentalists can find common ground, and mutual recognition of shared values, I don’t see it happening any time soon.