In coming years, look for them to blame global warming woes on climate scientists and environmentalists. How? “Why didn’t you tell us?” Or “You’re the experts, so you should have stopped this!”

Don’t think they’d have the gall to blame the people who were right all along? Perhaps you missed Dick Cheney a couple weeks ago, blaming Richard Clarke for not stopping the 9/11 attacks! (You can see the video on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show.)

Don’t worry. They will figure out a way to blame it on us. It will be incorrect, illogical, and unfair. But they will do it anyway.

Nuclear Plant Operators Too Low On Cash To Shut Down
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ 2009/ 06/ 17/ nuclear-plant-operators-t_n_216926.html

At the same time, this is why it’s important to pass Waxman-Markey to really spur the innovation we need. Steven Chu said we need 3-4 nobel level innovations in order to get ahead of climate change and substantially lower our emissions. Those innovations won’t come if we’re concerned with peak oil.

for more on climate change and it’s impacts internationally check out

climatesecurity.blogspot.com

They will never make up for the harm, damage and death they have wrought. Never.

A little biochar, applied once, can apparently take the place of chemical fertilizers applied every year, at a considerable energy cost. Biochar plus small amounts of chemical fertilizers often seem to work together synergistically, and biochar can also decrease the runoff of chemical fertilizers.

This is the purest form of bare-faced Public Relations bombast. The stock price of the oil companies is in the toilet and they are trying to talk investors into buying their stock. It didn’t work when Exxon tried this same stunt recently and it won’t work now. Demand for oil is still hovering near the lows of the past year and since the speculators on Wall Street (which include major players working for the oil companies) have driven up the price of a barrel of crude by 100% in the last 8 weeks, demand will remain very weak for now. In fact the price of crude being above $60 a barrel will almost certainly kill whatever tiny start we might have been making on a global economic recovery. A smooth move on their part.

The funny thing is that methinks Big Oil doth protest too much — no one is predicting we will be able to reduce oil and gas consumption by much more than 10% to 20% by 2025 even if we put on the biggest possible push for alternative power vehicles and hybrids. Since the oil companies will be running out of oil by then and will have upped the price to $150 a barrel anyway, no matter what alternatives are pursued their profits are in absolutely no danger for the “foreseeable future”.

So, Big Oil is simply opposing alternatives out of habit, like a school yard bully who has already extorted the lunch money from all the other kids but still keeps pushing them around anyway.