[Change]: Climate [Scam] and Energy Issues Send Hordes to K Street - NYTimes.com

The number of companies and organizations hiring energy lobbyists reached record levels last year as major climate legislation worked its way through Congress.

The Reference Frame: US: pika not endangered, SciAm: panic!

The petition to classify these small (170 g) cousins of the rabbit as an endangered species came from environmental advocacy groups. These green humans claimed that Pika dies when the temperature jumps to 25.5 degrees Celsius for a few hours. (The only existing reference seems to be a statement by an ABC journalist.) FWS found out that they can live at 40 degrees Celsius: there's just 14.5 degrees discrepancy between the two sources.

Britain faces 'oil crunch' within five years, Richard Branson warns - Telegraph

While the report did not address climate change directly, it stressed ''massive areas of overlap'' between the issues of depleted resources and pollution.

American Experience | Jimmy Carter | April 18, 1977

Unless profound changes are made to lower oil consumption, we now believe that early in the 1980s the world will be demanding more oil that it can produce.