1.  What is the main idea of Jonah Goldberg's commentary?

2.  Which of the statements about global warming made by Mr. Goldberg have you heard in the news?  Why do you think this is so?

• Climate change is dead as a major political issue for the foreseeable future. (from para. 5)
• According to the Congressional Research Service...the U.S. has the largest energy resources of any country, Saudi Arabia and Russia included. (from para. 6)
• Recent polling shows that Americans care about the economy more - a lot more - than global warming. When a Pew poll in January asked voters what their biggest priorities were, climate change ranked second to last.  (from para. 7)
• Skepticism about the existence of a problem [global warming] or its scope has been rising in the U.S. and Europe. (from para. 7)
• the number of new earth-friendly products has plummeted. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart has largely abandoned its failed experiment with becoming a proletarian purveyor of green goods no one wants to buy. (from para. 8)
• the U.N. Environment Program has removed the map of predicted devastation from its website. (from para. 9)
• Green jobs destroy more jobs than they create, and pay less. In Spain, Obama's favorite clean-energy innovator, one study found that 2.2 jobs were destroyed for every one that was created. Indeed, across Europe, massive investments in wind and solar simply haven't paid off. (from para. 11)