NY Governor Paterson makes an alarmist joke; reporter Lynn Collier seems skeptical

“We need renewable energy and we need it badly,” he said and spoke of the problems of generating power with oil and coal.

“It’s affecting the atmosphere so badly that some people who breathe it actually believe that there is no global warming,” Paterson said, drawing some laughter, though scientific evidence indicates otherwise to him.

Barking CO2 madness in Seattle

"Climate refugees."

It's a term we should get used to, researchers warned on Thursday, predicting a flood of new residents driven north by heat waves, fires and other calamitous effects of global warming.

With one speaker raising the specter of a new migration on the scale of the Great Depression, state and county officials admitted they have barely started getting ready.

The warnings came at a conference of planners, scientists and government officials drilling into the results of a study released this week examining what Washington faces -- for our food supply, our forests, our drinking-water supplies and public health, among other fronts -- as the globe warms in coming decades.

"We're going to have an influx of climate refugees," said Richard Hoskins, an epidemiologist with the Washington Health Department. "This is going to have a tremendous impact on our public health (system). Local public health has a very full plate as it is."

Bravo, Justin Berk: 2009 International Conference on Climate Change

The science is not settled, and the debate is definitely not over. Do you wonder if this Global Warming thing has been spun out of control by the media and now politicians? Are you a skeptic about the human influence on something you believe is a natural process? Or for that matter, perhaps Earth's climate might actually be cooling?

Over 31,000 American scientist have signed a treaty saying, "Global warming poses no crisis to Earth".