Speaking at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas on Monday, former President Bill Clinton challenged Americans to change how the energy/climate debate has been framed by extremists on the right.

The debate so far has been dominated by a need to prove that:

1) Global warming is real.
2) Global warming is caused by human activity.
3) Global warming is bad.
4) Measures to stop global warming won’t destroy our economy and way of life.

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Prof. Gabriel Calzada, "advisor to Spanish tourism industry" (Glenn Beck, left)

As House GOP opponents of Waxman-Markey continue trash-talking the climate bill, listen carefully for the name Gabriel Calzada, aka “the Spanish professor” as George Will called el gran profesor in a flim-flam of a column yesterday.

(Calzada should not be confused with The Spanish Prisoner, a venerable con-game that…on second thought, the two Spaniards are pretty much interchangeable.)

You’ll have to listen carefully, though, because key Republicans (Marsha Blackburn, TN, for example) are likely to use code, dropping oblique references to “the report from Spain.” (See p. 434.) .. continue reading ..