Bummer: NY Times food columnist thinks that burning natural gas "puts us on the highway to [CO2-induced] hell"

Let’s Not Braise the Planet - NYTimes.com

Three things worth noting: Most politicians prefer adaptation to mitigation — that is, they’d rather build houses on stilts than reduce emissions; energy independence is in no way synonymous with “clean” energy; and the oft-stated notion that “since gas burns cleaner than coal and oil, we should be moving toward gas” puts us on the highway to hell.