Optimistic: T. Boone Pickens Expects Obama Administration to Implement Pickens’ Plan : Gas 2.0

Billionaire American entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens is optimistic that the Obama administration will bring the United States’ energy infrastructure into the new millennium by implementing his plan for energy independence.

Cooling theorist allegedly has sunspots in his eyes

As United States president-elect Barack Obama argues, action on climate change is vital and offers opportunities, such as in renewable energy. As for the science, it is clear that the world is not cooling. Sunspot activity is relatively unimportant and the observed warming is largely due to humans. We have no excuse for further delays in addressing a critical situation with constructive and immediate measures.
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* Ralph Chapman is director of Environmental Studies at Victoria University. [Via CO2 Sceptics]

"Obama Pushes Carbon Tax Proposal That Would Inflict New Great Depression"

President elect Barack Obama used his speech at a Los Angeles summit last night to reinvigorate a push for the revival of a frightening proposal to slash carbon emissions by 80 per cent, a move that would inflict a new Great Depression, cost millions of jobs, and sink America to near third world status. [Via Minnesotans for Global Warming]