As Gas Prices Pinch, Support for Oil and Gas Production Grows | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

[March 19, 2012] Nearly two-thirds (65%) favor allowing increased offshore drilling, up from 57% a year ago and 44% in June 2010, during the Gulf spill.

...A year ago, the public viewed the development of alternative energy sources as the more important priority by a much wider margin (63% to 29%). Since then, support for expanding production of oil and other traditional sources has increased among most demographic and political groups and the shift among Republicans has been particularly pronounced.

Greg Barker calls for 30% emissions reduction target | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Britain should boost its carbon emissions reduction target to 30%, a government minister said on Tuesday – but only if Europe does the same

Wait a minute, if CO2 really threatens human civilization, why the "if"? If all Brits can get rich quick by selling each other wind turbines and solar panels, why the "if"?

KMXT 100.1 FM - Public Radio for Kodiak Island, Alaska. - DOT Maintenance Budget Stretched Thin by Hard Winter

As road conditions on the Chiniak Highway continue to deteriorate, the Alaska Department of Transportation says there's not much they can do at the moment. Randy
Vanderwood, Chief of Maintenance and Operations for the DOT's Central Region, says there's not a lot of money in its budget to do repairs after such a harsh winter.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: Looking forward to going o ...

Looking forward to going on Young Turks (@TYTonCurrent) tomorrow to talk about "The Hockey Stick & Climate Wars"... fb.me/1YpwyfIHF

Micahel Mann – Climate Scientist | Chris Crisman Photography

Michael was even willing to let us up on the roof of the science building with him for our last shot of the day, where we photographed him with (ironically enough) Penn State’s power plant in the background.  [Where is the massive black cloud of invisible CO2?]