No wonder ‘climate’ wasn’t mentioned in the presidential debate | Watts Up With That?

“At present, governments’ attempts to limit greenhouse-gas emissions through carbon cap-and-trade schemes and to promote renewable and sustainable energy sources are prob¬ably too late to arrest the inevitable trend of global warming,” the scientists write in a paper published online in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, on Monday, 14 October 2012.

Scientists link magnetic reversal, climate change and super volcano to same time period

In a press release today, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences described the connection between the Laschamp magnetic reversal, the Phlegrean Field (Campi Flegrei) volcanic eruption that devastated most of southeastern Europe, and periods of frequent rapid cooling and warming.

One Last Energy Fact From the Presidential Debate - NYTimes.com

One assertion by President Obama about energy achievements in Tuesday night’s campaign debate drew little notice. Refuting Mr. Romney’s charge that he had jeopardized American energy security by vetoing the Keystone XL pipeline for carrying crude oil from Canada, the president said: “And with respect to this pipeline that Governor Romney keeps on talking about, we’ve — we’ve built enough pipeline to wrap around the entire earth once. So I’m all for pipelines; I’m all for oil production.”
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But, as Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post and a few others noted, most of those were natural gas distribution lines to homes, offices and factories, not new pipelines to carry crude oil and natural gas from production fields.

And the increase in pipeline mileage — in a nationwide system of more than 2.6 million miles – represents a gain of only about 1.5 percent.

The Pathway to North American Energy Independence | Energy & Commerce Committee

With the right public policies, enough new energy supplies can come online to eliminate the need for imported oil from OPEC and other hostile sources.