The tweety and bloggy opiners who care most about climate change and energy policy were mostly left cold by President Obama's big speech last night. Here's an arbitrary round-up that captures the varying reax: MoJo's Kevin Drum panned it. The Atlantic's Joshua Green said it was a "decent speech, but he [Obama] wimped out on climate change." Kate Shepard, also with MoJo, called it "disappointing" and said Obama "largely avoided the issue of climate change." Indeed, said Bill McKibben:
I was struck by the fact that he didn't mention climate change, except as a reference to the title of the house bill, and that he didn't mention carbon prices.
xid=huffpo-direct" target="_blank">Concludes Time's Byran Walsh: