It depends on how you wrap it. You don't even need to mention climate change. It's a "technology push for job creation"<p>What it isn't is an obvious friction imposed on the entire market. People don't like that.<p>We spent 10X this number of bank bailouts and such. That didn't piss normal people off because the messaging was that it was needed to fix the economy. Obama should do this as a followup to 2010 being a year to push job creation. The rest of the initiative could be to lower certain taxes and regulations, which is generally free. Then the messaging could be "Obama backs $200B job creation effort".