Walter Russell Mead continues his critique of the UN climate change treaty process with a biting article about the Cancun conference. Expectations that the conference will produce anything newsworthy are so low that the New York Times will not be sending a reporter to cover the full conference and the BBC, which sent 20 reporters to Copenhagen, will only send one to Cancun.
Al Gore admitted earlier this month that the tax credit for ethanol was mistake. Everyone on the right jumped on his statement as further evidence of Mr. Gore’s hypocrisy.
Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle in an article at Real Clear Politics at Real Clear Politics reminds us that it was Mr. Gore who as Vice President in 1994 broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate by voting in favor of the ethanol tax credit. This credit according to Saunders added $5 billion to the deficit last year.