1. Valuable resources have been squandered for little or no energy return on energy invested. A greater economic risk on the horizon may be the present GHG, renewables investments, and carbon trading hype, being revealed as a modern-day atmospheric version of 'Tulip-o-mania.' "In February 1637 in the Netherlands, a tulip bulb sold for 5,200 guilders --nearly twice the annual earnings of a well-off merchant and 20 times the going price for eight fat pigs?. tulips became a commodity that was traded in the world's first futures market. Everyone from horticulturists to weavers and carpenters neglected work to buy and sell bulbs. The spectacular crash that followed;There is a risk to society in demonizing the fossil fuels that power our modern way of life; there is great waste of precious fossil fuels in most climate change initiatives of the past few decades,2016
2. Exxon is the target of a public battle that sends a powerful message to other smaller corporations on climate change -"don't try to challenge or 'deny.' Comply. Or look what we can do to you;Contrary to Supran and Oreskes' assertion that Exxon's
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4. Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Scientific Literature;Environmental Research Letters,2013