[Insane pitch: No climate swindle, little "pie"]

"That's the issue, jobs. What's at question is who's going to build the batteries and who's going to get the jobs," said David Vieau, president of A123Systems Inc., a Massachusetts-based company that makes high-power lithium ion batteries for hybrid cars and other uses.

"If we don't act (on climate legislation) it's absolutely certain we're going to get a minimal piece of that pie."

[How, specifically, was this number calculated?]: Brussels Says $74 Billion Renewables Research Needed to Meet Climate Goals

Europe must plow an additional €50 billion ($73.6 billion) into low-carbon energy research over the next 10 years if it wants to meet climate change targets.

[Why do the Japanese people tolerate this?!]: Japan goes CO2 shopping again

Japan has just agreed to buy emission rights from Latvia. The world's fifth largest emitter has difficulties in reaching its target under the Kyoto Protocol by domestic reductions.

Gas demand growing as coal burns out

Gas is a climate friendly complementary to renewables, states the International Gas Union

MIT climate expert speaks on ‘Deconstructing Global Warming’ « Bates College

Professor Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology and chair of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives a presentation titled "Deconstructing Global Warming" at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).