White House Website Cool to Global Warming

Hope. Change.:

References to a cap on carbon emissions and a campaign pledge to spend $150 billion on clean energy technologies disappeared from the White House website in June — even as the Senate was still trying to pass legislation implementing those priorities.

Peter Bray, president of Versionista, a Portland, Ore.-based company that tracks changes to the White House site, said the Obama administration made “whole-cloth” changes to its Energy & Environment issues site on June 10.

Deleted items include a section titled “Closing the Carbon Loophole and Cracking Down on Polluters” that offered broad-brush goals for “protecting American consumers” and “promoting U.S. competitiveness.”

Also eliminated was President Barack Obama’s oft-repeated campaign call to spend $150 billion over a decade on “energy research and development to transition to a clean energy economy.”...

The website changes came with little fanfare at the same time that environmental groups were pleading with Obama to take a more proactive role to find the votes for a sweeping climate bill. The president’s prime-time address from the Oval Office on June 15 drew criticism from activists when he didn’t mention the words “carbon,” “greenhouse gases,” “global warming” or “cap and trade.”

I'm thinking the White House knows now what a loser those ideas are and wants them out of the way for the midterms in November. Better to let Harry Reid and his energy bill swing on his own out there rather than join him in his political suicide.