[If you've figured out that Al Gore Warming is a crock, does it follow that you're against fuel efficiency?] - WSJ

“Of chief concern is that people who actively ignored the research on the importance of fuel economy and believe in their hearts that [global warming] is a ‘crock’ are still in senior positions and spread throughout” GM, Kleinbaum testified before a hearing of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on the agencies’ joint proposals to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and tighten fuel-economy standards. “The net result is a deep concern that while they will say the right words, they will still under invest in fuel-efficient vehicles.”

A GM spokesman declined to comment on Kleinbaum’s remarks.

Floating island idea shortlisted - News - The Engineer

Prof Carl Ross from the Department of Mechanical and Design Engineering has reached the final five of the ‘Britain’s Bright Ideas’ competition, which involved a national search for energy-efficient ideas, led by energy company npower.
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'There are many islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans that are only a few feet above sea level,' he said. 'If global warming continues and the sea level rises by about 6.7m as predicted, millions of people will be displaced.'

Government TV climate ad is propaganda – Janet Daley - Telegraph Blogs

That is to say, it is an attempt by the state to manipulate opinion and evoke emotional reactions without offering argument or evidence for its case. It accepts uncritically the most extreme rendition of the anthropogenic global warming narrative as if it were entirely uncontentious and presents it in the most sentimentally evocative possible way (ie as a threat to one’s own children and to defenceless creatures generally). It uses the techniques once associated with totalitarian societies not to persuade (which is what advertising properly does) but to coerce: to create fear and guilt. And to what purpose? Without offering constructive argument or serious explanation of the options, we can only assume that this is a campaign designed to browbeat the public into accepting any new restrictions or “green” taxes which government may choose to impose. Fortunately, it seems that ordinary people still have the independence of mind to know when they are being bullied.

Indian premier says poor nations won’t sacrifice on development in climate change deal

Even a 3.6-degree-Fahrenheit (2-degree-Celsius) temperature rise could subject up to 2 billion people to water shortages by 2050, according to a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists.

Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed warned Thursday that developing nations would bear the brunt of environmental catastrophes caused by global warming and insisted that a new deal was essential.

“On the issue of climate change, there is no room for compromise, no deals, no half measures. Radical change is what’s required,” Nasheed told the conference.