Your source also denies the impending peak and decline in oil production in the Middle East. I wish this were on an episode of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment, Really?! with Seth Myers and Amy Poehler.

http://masterresource.org/ wp-content/ uploads/ 2008/ 12/ crop-circles.pdf

It would probably sound like this, “Really! So you think oil is just going to keep flowing! Really?! We can just keep using it in our single occupant Hummer H2’s and it will continue to be available at the same price and availability even though increased demand is being driven here and in China and India. Huh! Really?!”

Considering both the necessity for comprehensive global action right now, paired with the complexity of the climate issue and it’s lack of readily discernible cause and effect impacts, I believe we will not be moved to the kind of bold, all-encompassing action that is necessary, until our global leaders come before the public and speak in grave tones of the looming danger and the urgency for immediate, comprehensive action. President Obama needs to tell it straight up….. “we are facing a dire EMERGENCY!”

Until the public (and our legislators) fully appreciate that we are in EMERGENCY mode, we will continue down the business as usual path with all of the standard political wrangling and gamesmanship. Delays and dilutions will get in the way of the necessary action.

The climate catastrophe is unlike any problem humanity has faced. It’s time that our response (and particularly that of our leaders) reflects the grave threats that climate change poses. We simply don’t have time to treat this issue like any other important social issue… figuring that progress will come in due time. When the tipping points come due, we’ll be done.

http://www.nsf.gov/index.jsp

I went on the National Academy of Sciences website. They had one link to Climate Change in a Popular Searches box. Climate Change was even after Evolution.

http://www.nas.edu/

Now could someone from this website get a sense of the importance of Climate Change to the health of humans on this planet from this websites front page? They even had Evolution before Climate Change. I can get that evolution is important to many in the science community, but mostly any and every bodies opinion on evolution will not have any impact on our planet, scientists will keep doing what they are doing and the general public will keep doing what is doing. But with Climate Change, the importance is paramount to the well being of future generations.

It’s not just the Press and Journalists who don’t have a clue, but the scientists also.

The Biologists, Chemists, Physicists and Engineering had better come around to the idea that many of their projects and pet projects might have to come second to a livable human civilization. The press and journalists are just doing the same thing the scientists are doing and are in psychological denial about the seriousness of this and letting the big problems fall to somebody else.

Glad to hear that Australia has some good climate coverage, but it isn’t all good. Tim Lambert blogs at Deltoid and has great AGW coverage, including a series he calls “the Australian’s War on Science”.

Lambert is a smart, consistent, and funny observer on a range of issues.

OT, but kudos: CNET quotes you in Martin LaMonica’s article on Google’s clean energy initiatives, in particular its experiments with offsets. Google has been near-perfect on energy — continuously improving efficiency in its data centers, using clean energy, starting to measure upstream and downstream energy use, lobbying for clean energy (they claim), and experimenting with offsets while acknowledging their limitations.

And LaMonica, CNET’S “green-tech” reporter, is about as good as they get.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ opinions/ tomtoles/ ?hpid=opinionsbox1

For example:

Swine flu = malaria
Climate change stats
Eating pork = climate change