This is one of my biggest issues with the Green Party / Greenpeace etc. No one's disputing that resources are scarce and new energy policies are needed. It's just what those policies are. They would have you believe that Marxism, putting on a hair shirt and frugality are the only answer. That...
That really wasn't what I was getting at. However, to take your points:
Why wouldn't you want to use cleaner energy? The answer would depend on cost for most people. Why would we want to drive around in combustion engines for the next decades? Because the alternatives are no greener and (again)...
A publication that's read and trusted online by the majority of good computer scientists and programmers that I've met and I've been in the industry 15 years.
But we were also told that one of the most alarming results of this was the rapid melting of the ice caps. Which seems to have gone in...
Quite. It was this sort of discussion on thousands of emails that allowed James Dellingpole to claim the whole thing was a massive conspiracy theory, which, of course, it isn't. It's just too complicated to have a definitive answer.
So why post? Because there was a massive thread on fracking...
An antarctic ice shelf reported to be eroding due to CO2 is, apparently, not after all.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/03/antarctic_ice_shelf_melt_lowest_ever_recorded_just_not_much_affected_by_global_warming/
Meanwhile there was a recovery in the Arctic ice layer this year...