Deutsche Bank, Nasdaq launch clean energy index | Reuters

DB Climate Change Advisors, the climate change investment and research branch of Deutsche Bank's asset management business, and Nasdaq OMX Group, Inc said the DB NASDAQ OMX Clean Tech Index is comprised of 119 companies.

Mark Fulton, Deutsche's global head of climate change [swindle] investment research, said companies in the index derive at least a third of their revenues from clean technology. And 106 of the companies have more than half their revenues in the space.

Twitter / Stephen Colbert

global warming doesn't exist because it's cold outside. simple equation: eyes + snow = science.

Flashback: Senator Amy Klobuchar displays her lack of knowledge on global warming

For example, he asked about the science concerning natural temperature changes that the Earth has clearly seen many times in the past. Incredibly, Klobuchar first replied that you only have to go outside or "talk to resort owners" to see the effects of human warming in Minnesota.

Government Report Brings Climate Change to America's Backyard | SolveClimate.com

"This report provides the concrete scientific information that says unequivocally that climate change is happening now, and it's happening in our own backyards, and it affects the kind of things people care about,” NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco told reporters.

[Flashback: Thomas Friedman thinks he sees global warming in the yard of his mansion]

Finally, Friedman said, the emergence of a national and global consensus on the validity of climate change--tip of the hat to Al Gore--has hastened most Americans to worry about the health of the planet.

"We had daffodils growing in our front yard in Washington this December," he said. "It was like being in the Twilight Zone. I half expected Rod Serling to be out mowing my lawn."