Obama’s Chu–Echoing Carter’s Schlesinger–Sees Peak Oil and Gas — MasterResource

One can only hope that the economic crisis prevents too many companies from being ‘forward-looking’ enough to invest foolishly, for example, in biofuels, fuel cells (hydrogen and other), electric vehicles, and photovoltaics.

Global Warming Skepticism: Not Just for Wingnuts Anymore? : Red, Green, and Blue

Too many people have predicted problems within a certain range of catastrophe for me. Even if you do my standard with all claims (which is, divide the shocking number in half, and multiply the time range by two), my generation of twenty somethings can’t take the gamble that it might turn out that nothing is wrong. I don’t have the time to sit back until 2044, then turn to the skeptics and say “told you so” as I furiously bail the water seeping into my 4th floor Brooklyn apartment.

In Congressional Hearings, Amateurs Invited to Confuse Climate Science | SolveClimate.com

Also testifying was Tom Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. Karl cited scientific measurements showing that global temperatures and CO2 levels have increased over the past century – data that is undisputed among scientists.

Asked if Monckton was lying about “global cooling,” Karl responded that he would have to check Monckton’s data but that he had never seen the numbers put together in quite that way.

That’s a true scientist’s reflex – check the data and methodology before reaching a conclusion.

Another attempt to scare people into coughing up climate scam money

JOHANNESBURG, 30 March 2009 (IRIN) - Countries staring into a gloomy future of low food production, less water, higher storm surges, longer dry periods and other expensive consequences of climate change have been told they can adapt at a cost ranging from several hundred billion dollars to over a trillion dollars.