Insanity: Britain expects low-carbon industrial revolution to end recession

LONDON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a national effort to create a low carbon economy, stressing that green a recovery is the very option for the economy to beat the current recession.

"As I look round at the challenges and opportunities of our economy today, and the tasks we face ahead, I don't think we will have the strength of recovery we need unless it is a low carbon recovery," Brown said at Friday's Low Carbon Industrial Strategy Summit in London.

Roger Revelle & Al Gore: Coleman's Video Report, 3/6/09

So think of the irony. Today Al Gore received the first Roger Revelle award, an honor named after the man who sent Gore on his global warming campaign.

But the truth is; Revelle realized that it was a false alarm and the science was flawed before he died.

Revelle died of a heart attack in 1991.