YouTube - Christopher Booker - 'Science fail + media hype = Global Scare'.flv

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Ads Backed by Fossil-Fuel Interests Argue 'CO2 Is Green' - NYTimes.com

A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry launched a new ad campaign today pushing the idea that carbon dioxide isn't an environmental pollutant.
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"People who make claims like [CO2 being green] are being just as irrational as people saying it's going to destroy the Earth," [Ken Green, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute think tank] added. "No one has enough info to actually say that."  [Did Ken Green really say that?!]

Can These Two Democrats Inject "Rationalism" Into the Energy Debate? - Politics - The Atlantic

Backed by money from George Kaiser, the major philanthropist, they're trying to inject a vial of rationalism into the overheated political debate by "scoring" the various proposals -- more than 30 different ones at last count -- using metrics that are fairly well accepted by most credible researchers. They've got two main numbers: the amount of CO2 that would be reduced by 2030 given the implementation of certain proposals ... and the cost per person over that time period for the changes.

Climate Scientists Speak Out: "The Urgent Need to Act Cannot be Overstated" : TreeHugger

[OK, so this isn't an overstatement?: If we don't remove all the CO2 from our atmosphere by midnight tonight, we'll all perish tomorrow in CO2-induced hellfire?]