The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

In the months after George W. Bush's reelection, a lot of liberals and environmentalists were ready to take a hard look at their political agenda, the Democratic Party, and the interest groups they supported.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.