Climate – Feb 15

Branson offers $25 million prize to ‘defeat global warming’ (critique)

Measuring the uncertainty of climate change

Population growth plays a key role
Utilities’ study questions prospects for much lower emissions

Big Oil speaks – Feb 14

Shell president “shocked at how many people believe in peak oil”
Cheap oil to last, “doomsday” fears overblown says Maugeri of Eni SpA (Italian oil)
Chevron CEO calls for US to triple ethanol use
Exxon-Mobil’s Tillterson: focus on meeting oil/gas demand
Chevron CEO wants national regs for GHG