Climate [Allegedly] in Crisis: Are We the Ostrich or Hawk? | Green Business | Reuters

Foreign correspondent Stephan Faris, who was inspired to write Forecast after witnessing climate-change-induced suffering in Darfur, offered the starkest of reminders: Change is coming, no matter what we do. We can act to limit the global warming we already have set in motion, or we can let it go unchecked and gather strength For all those who complain of the cost of reducing our carbon footprint , Faris warned that doing nothing also will carry a cost. A heavy cost. (See the Stern Report and its conclusion that not acting on climate change will cost us $7 trillion in the next 40 years - 20 percent of all the money in the world).
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We have made changes in the past: we responded to the anti-littering campaign of the sixties and seventies by changing how we behave, cleaning up the litter from streets and roads and rivers seemingly overnight. We woke up and changed on smoking, and drinking and driving, too. Climate is the biggest challenge we have faced since World War II, but America has a history of rising to such challenges. We just need to figure out if we want to be the climate ostrich, or the hawk.

Edward Humes is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist and the author of Eco Barons.

No [sanity] on [alleged solutions to alleged problems]

Faced with worsening projections for global warming and energy security, learning that the wind turbine maker Vestas will be closing its factory on the Isle of Wight is a bit like hearing that pharmaceutical companies are closing down the production of flu vaccines just as the alert for swine flu goes from level five to full pandemic.

CQ Politics | Opponents of Climate Change Bill Launch Ad Campaign

Few committee Republicans are expected to vote for the bill. But Republican Mary Bono Mack of California, who is undecided, said some Democrats have told her there’s “no way” that they will vote for it, either. “Certainly, there are no Republicans who want to take a difficult vote and allow those on the other side of the aisle to be able to take a free pass,” she said.

Exxon ad: Capturing CO2

[Quote: "...a lot of natural gas has impurities like CO2 in it."

If CO2 is an "impurity", what's the chemical composition of "pure" air?