Solving global warming is a matter of investment

Bracken Hendricks, senior fellow of the Center for American Progress, speaks about the Green Jobs report released. Hendricks states that global warming is a matter of investment, and once private industries put their money into green jobs, the economy will pick up and the U.S. will be better off. (0:48)
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Free market more important than polar bears

President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic says that politicians, bureaucrats, and the inability for the free market to function are more important in the climate change debate than changes in temperature, sea level, melting ice caps, and carbon dioxide emissions (1:23)
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Global warming supporters violating freedoms

President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic says the structures of environmentalism and communism, which limit freedom, are similar. (0:30)
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Government subsidies are the dreams of communist planners

President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic says that incentives that promote green industry are similar to communist central planning. (0:16)
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Light rail systems create as much pollution as SUVs

Randal O'Toole of the Cato Institute says that rail transit is not a good way of relieving greenhouse gas emissions, and that most light rail lines in the U.S. use as much energy or more as the average SUV and as much carbon monoxide as the average automobile. (0:23)
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Energy independence doesn't mean U.S. would stop buying foreign oil

At a Brookings Institution discussion on energy challenges for the next president, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) says that energy independence doesn't mean that the U.S. "would never buy oil from Mexico, or Canada, or Saudi Arabia" but that it would never be "held hostage" for oil supplies. (0:43)
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Solar energy is reliable and usable for the future

Karl Gawell, of the National of the Solar Energy Association, spoke today about the potential of solar energy. Solar energy has been heavily relied upon in space for many years and has the potential to be powerful and effective in everyday life. (1:11)
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Wind could provide 20 percent of energy by 2030

Randy Swisher, the executive director of the American Wind Energy Association stresses the significance of the potential power that wind energy can have in the future in the energy arena today. (0:56)
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Bible battle over polar bears

During a hearing investigating a delay in listing polar bears as endangered the chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) quoted Genesis. After his opening statement Jim Inhofe (R-OK) quotes scripture to highlight his point that there is too much attention being paid to polar bears. (0:40)
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Listing the polar bear would be "devastating"

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) says that listing the polar bear as endangered because of global warming would have the devastating effect of requiring the federal government to regulate all carbon-emitting behavior caused by humans. (0:41)
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Senator Sanders says Bush "Worst Environmental President Ever"

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calls the Bush administration's environmental policy an "embarrassment" in an interview following the State of the Union Address Monday. He says that the United States should break its dependency on fossil fuels and lead the way towards sustainable energy.
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Speaker Pelosi Stresses Importance of Environmental Legislation

In a "pre-buttal" to President Bush's State of the Union Address Monday, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated the Democrats' intentions to proceed with environmental proposals including cap-and-trade legislation, and praised progress already made in increasing automobile mileage standards.
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