President Obama’s anemic speech on climate action was disappointing, but not surprising. He’s still backing economic growth by promoting biofuels, clean coal, fracked gas and nuclear power. Rather than the broad, ambitious plan he had promised, Obama put forth a modest series of responses couched in a climate primer—all to an inattentive audience.
His joke about not having time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society felt akin to George Zimmerman’s attorney beginning the…