While Chris and I bicker in the comments, here’s some positive news.<\/p>\n
For years, I’m groused that all the focus in energy policy has been on the AGW boogeyman – a boogeyman whose existence lots of people (including me) doubt, and lots of people flatly don’t believe in. Which made it an unproductive hook on which to hang changes in energy planning.<\/p>\n
Someone got a cluebat, because here’s an article in the NY Times today<\/a>:<\/p>\n Ms. Jackson settled on a three-pronged strategy. Invoking the notion of thrift, she set out to persuade towns to compete with one another to become more energy-efficient. She worked with civic leaders to embrace green jobs as a way of shoring up or rescuing their communities. And she spoke with local ministers about “creation care,” the obligation of Christians to act as stewards of the world that God gave them, even creating a sermon bank with talking points they could download.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n “I don’t recall us being recruited under a climate change label at all,” said Stacy Huff, an executive for the Coronado Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which was enlisted to help the project. Mr. Huff describes himself as “somewhat skeptical” about global warming.<\/p>\n Mr. Huff said the project workers emphasized conservation for future generations when they recruited his group. The message resonated, and the scouts went door to door in low-income neighborhoods to deliver and install weatherization kits.<\/p>\n “It is in our DNA to leave a place better than we found it,” he said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n You don’t need to believe in, or even care about, climate change to agree that we need to change our patterns of energy use.<\/b><\/p>\n