Offshore Wind: Plenty of Potential, Even More Hurdles - Environmental Capital - WSJ

There’s a simple reason that offshore wind still makes up less than 1% of global wind installations: The greater cost of offshore wind outweighs the benefits of stronger and steadier ocean breezes.

Opposing Views: NEWS: The U.S. Military Goes Green to Fight Global Warming

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2009 – Ever imagine filling up the fuel tanks on a military aircraft with french fry grease? It’s no April Fools' Day joke -- that’s exactly what the Air Force could do someday if a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research program proves successful.

Strasbourg town hall: Obama continues to promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time

This is the generation that must also stop the spread of the pollution that is slowly killing our planet, from shrinking coastlines and devastating storms to widespread misery and famine and drought. The effects of climate change are now in plain sight.

Europe has acted with a seriousness of purpose that this challenge demands. And in the last few months I'm proud to say that America has begun to take unprecedented steps to transform the way that we use energy. We appointed a special envoy to help us lead a global effort to reduce the carbon that we send in the atmosphere.

But we all know that time is running out. And that means that America must do more. Europe must do more. China and India must do more. Rolling back the tide of a warming planet is a responsibility that we have to ourselves, to our children, and all of those who will inherit God's creation long after we are gone. So let us meet that responsibility together. I am confident that we can meet it. But we have to begin today. (Applause.)