Pickens Says U.S. Offshore Drilling Probably Won’t Find Much Oil - BusinessWeek

April 1 (Bloomberg) -- T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire energy investor, endorsed the Obama administration’s plan to open areas of the U.S. East Coast for oil and natural gas exploration although he cast doubt on what might be developed.

“You can drill in those areas,” Pickens said in a Bloomberg Television interview broadcast today. “I do not think you’ll come up with very much oil. But, let’s do it. I am for anything American.”

YouTube - Is Jeopardy's Alex Trebek A Global Warming Denier?

April 02, 2010 — 3/30/10: Jeopardy's Alex Trebek questions a climate scientist competing on the show whether global warming is real. He sounds skeptical.

What the New CAFE Standards Really Mean - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Utlimately, there is no getting around the fact that setting higher CAFE standards is just a way for cowardly politicians to avoid telling their fellow citizens that they should pay more for the privilege of driving.

[It's not the tsunami, it's the carbon dioxide]: 7,600 flood deaths predicted

Up to 7,600 people would die along Tokyo Bay if tidal waves caused by a strong typhoon strike the bay after sea levels have risen as a result of global warming, the government's Central Disaster Management Council predicted Friday.

The council's forecast was part of a report made by its expert panel about the damage likely to be caused by large-scale flooding when an extremely strong typhoon hits Tokyo and its vicinity. It was the council's first prediction of human casualties from tidal waves as a result of higher sea levels caused by global warming.

Himalayan Glacier Update: Nature Report Misleading | The Resilient Earth

The article's explicit claim of “settling the science” is just untrue, unless continued ignorance counts as settled science. Even though the scientific opinions expressed in the Nature “news feature” are all over the map, the tone chosen by the reporter is one of dread and impending disaster. The truth is, science just doesn't know much about these remote glaciers and as Dr. Armstrong said, “if there's no data, you shouldn't say anything.” Climate change alarmists please take note. What we do know is this—reports of the glaciers' imminent demise are still just climate alarmist scaremongering.