Slate Editor Weisberg Second-Guesses the Potential of Climate Change Catastrophe | NewsBusters.org

Although it's not an outright dismissal of the anthropogenic global warming theory, it is a refreshing change from the usual gang of alarmist rhetoric coming from the likes of former Vice President Al Gore and NASA scientist James Hansen.

Newsweek: Chu downgrades the climate crisis: Climate scam only mentioned AFTER economy and security

Finally, we must move beyond oil because the science on global warming is clear and compelling: greenhouse-gas emissions, primarily from fossil fuels, have started to change our climate. We have a responsibility to future generations to reduce those emissions to spare our planet the worst of the possible effects.

For our economy, our security and our environment, we must free ourselves from foreign oil. We must depend not on the oilfields of the Middle East but on the farm fields of the Midwest and on our vast wind and solar resources here at home.