Feeling Deflated About Gas - WSJ.com

Asked recently when output from North America's prolific shale-gas resources would peak, Chesapeake Energy's chief executive, Aubrey McClendon, quipped: "With all due respect to you and to me, we'll both be dead."

Barring sudden discovery of the elixir of life, he is surely correct: Navigant Consulting puts recoverable resources at 118 years of supply.

Greentech Media: DOE Stimulus Spending: $17B So Far, $30B by Year’s End

The Department of Energy has handed out about $16.7 billion in stimulus funds, and should see that grow to $30 billion this fall, DOE senior advisor Matt Rogers says.

The Department of Energy has already given out nearly $17 billion in stimulus package funding, and that's set to nearly double by year's end, said Matt Rogers, the senior advisor to Energy Secretary Steven Chu who's in charge of keeping track of those billions of dollars.

Orders Countermanded, Comrades! Strong El Nino Is Good For You! « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Wait a moment…so now a non-weak El Niño is good? Is this the first time anybody has said anything positive about El Niño?

No, it isn’t. Still, the ENSO has often been described as some kind of scourge.

[Escape the dangers of carbon dioxide by taking a fossil-fueled trip to a warm place that's very far away!]

Ratua Private Island says it’s the perfect retreat for travellers wanting to escape to their own private island and away from the “world of consumption, economic upheaval and global warming.”

Launched nearly four years ago, the private island resort is a 30-minute motorboat journey from Espiritu Santo Airport in the Vanuatu Archipelago, on 146 acres of private land.