Washington Energy Services - Americans like using their air conditioners

In the poll, 67 percent said they couldn't live without their air conditioning, even though the company noted that air conditioners account for about 5 percent of the nation's electrical use and cost about $11 bill in energy bills.

Daily Kos: Politics at the Wal-Mart Gas Pump? (With poll.)

Just about anything printed that passes before my eyes gets read. I had just made my weekly grocery run at Wal-Mart and was pumping gas at the onsite station, Murphy USA, when I noticed a litte tear-off pad on the gas pump, that read "HELP KEEP ENERGY COSTS LOW AND ENSURE THAT THE PRICES OF THE PAST DO NOT BURDEN OUR FUTURE." (The caps and bolding are Murphy's, not mine.)

An alarmist's alarmist: Gwynne Dyer pitches climate fraud - Ontario, CA

[Dyer] "A good deal of the bad stuff is probably going to happen even if we get on the case now. Too much time has been wasted already to avoid some really nasty disasters."

Ever since Al Gore gave us An Inconvenient Truth, a cottage industry has emerged of experts telling us how messed up the environment is. Like Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution, or Alan Weisman's The World Without Us, that contemplates how nature would rebound in the days, months and years after people disappeared.

Gore once quipped, don't worry about the planet: "The planet will be fine. There just won't be any people on it."
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In the United States, five southwestern cities (Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego, Los Angeles and Albuquerque, with 30 million people -a population nearly that of Canada's -might not have enough drinking water within 10 years.
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Dyer will explain why "geoengineering" -using artificial measures to hold down the temperature -is now necessary. We have to get the global temperature under control now, even as we struggle to get carbon dioxide emissions under control.

He speaks matter-of-factly about injecting a sulphur solution into the air to deflect the sun's rays.

Talk about controlling the weather sounds like science fiction but, he says, geo-engineering will be a necessary fact within 10 years.

"Some science fiction turns into 'science fact' real fast," he says.