June 25, 2008
SPPI
The title of this article sounds quite alarming, and comes from the movie An Inconvenient Truth.
In October of this last year, the High Court in London had identified this claim of rising sea levels as an "error" in the movie. Even today, school teachers across the United ...

Read more: Rising Sea Levels Due to Ice Melting in Greenland and West Antarctica?

June 24, 2008
Stratfor's Geopolitical Diary talks about oil, the speculators and the politics.

Congress held hearings Monday on the role that speculators play in shaping the oil market — specifically, the role they play in driving prices up.

Like most commodities, oil can be purchased and sold ...

Read more: Oil, Speculators and Politics

June 24, 2008
by Larry Kudlow

Drill, Drill, Drill: My Interview with Anadarko Petroleum CEO James Hackett
What follows below is an unofficial transcript of my interview last night with James Hackett. Mr. Hackett is the president & CEO of Anadarko Petroleum. He also happens to be an incredibly ...

Read more: Drill, Drill, Drill: An Interview with Anadarko CEO James Hackett

June 24, 2008

Vinod K. Dar
Managing Director, Dar & Company
The world can have carbon control or it can have food and energy security.  The former means reduced energy supply while the latter requires greatly expanded energy supply, which in turn, for at least the next 3 or 4 decades, means ...

Read more: Carbon Control Versus Energy and Food Security

June 23, 2008
By Vincent Gioia

I wondered how long it would take to come to this. We have had calls for the firing of scientists and other disbelievers of the religion of the day; can the inquisition and McCarthy-style hearings be far behind? I can hear it now - "Are you now or ever have been a ...

Read more: Global Warming Deniers - Get Ready For The Coming Inquisition

June 23, 2008
Marc Morano and the EPW
Don’t Panic Over Predictions of Climate Doom - Get the Facts on James Hansen
‘High Crimes Against Humanity’ Trial for Climate Skeptics?

Weblink to Part Two of Fact Sheet on James Hansen:
NASA scientist James Hansen has created worldwide media frenzy with his ...

Read more: James Hansen Exposed, Climate Outlook is Excellent

June 23, 2008
Right Side News
I have read press releases from both Senator Warner and Senator Webb introducing legislation that would allow the Commonwealth of Virginia to explore for natural gas off its shores, empowering Virginia, not Washington, to make decisions regarding its own coastline.  ...

Read more: The Virginians are Mobilizing for Energy

June 22, 2008
Solstice Sea Ice Update
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow
ICECAP

The Antarctic set a new record (since records began in 1979) for sea ice extent at the end of last winter. It stayed well above the normal through the summer with icemelt 40% below the normal. As a new height of ...

Read more: Is the Arctic Ice Expanding or Collapsing?