Its quarterly and annual reports often included commentary and statements about how it was successfully positioning itself and its primary product as THE low carbon source of fuel for new electrical power generation.

If you have a critical eye, have a reasonably good understanding of economics, know how marketing works, and can read a balance sheet it is not difficult to draw lots of lines of evidence between the global natural gas industry and the rapidly growing and well funded industry of climate change alarmists.

It is also not hard to see why many people who are most vocal about the need for immediate action also want to deny the use of nuclear fission as a major force multiplier in the battle.

One of the main reasons that I am skeptical about the “crisis” nature of global climate change is that there is so much hype about needing to spend vast quantities of money right now to make big changes - that is the talk that salesmen learn when “going for the close”.

Never, ever forget that one man’s cost is another man’s revenue.

Google Julian Huxley

Then ask the WWF for your money back.

I think this also applies to Daryl’s original post: just because oil companies have a motive, doesn’t mean they are guilty.

Isn’t the more likely scenario the fact that due to mankind’s relentless exploitation of natural resources we are releasing dangerous amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere and upsetting our delicate climatic balance?