Key Questions for Steven Chu, Nominee for Secretary of Energy

Question #1: Gasoline Prices

Last September you made the statement that "somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," which at the time exceeded $8.00 a gallon. As secretary of energy, will you speak for or against any measures that would raise the price of gasoline?

Al Fin: Chinese Soot Invasion! US DOE Scientist Warn that Soot Causing Earlier Snowmelt

Climatology has generally neglected the effect of soot on these phenomena, instead ascribing them to CO2 warming instead. Such errors not only expose much of the climatological mainstream as being sloppy and unscientific, they also send engineers off on wild goose chases, pursuing the wrong strategies to mitigate the effect.