world's largest investors in the alternate energy business.
and that's where the cynic in me thinks you done broke the code.
The other half of the equation is now 500 Northern hemisphere refineries have been 'rationalised' the oil companies find themselves cold shouldered everywhere they try in the first world to get permission to build new capacity - just like big new airports.
The stuff may well be there to extract but could it be more the case they can't increase refining capacity anywhere near the actual major markets and supply chain? And trapped by the 'just in time' concept they can't significantly expand by buiding over existing plant.
Now they call on the public to push for an exponential growth in alternatives? Nah, couldn't be - could it?
Naively yours,
Rob
PS All that said climate research has been in the news here in the UK prior to the Nasa stuff. The welcome extra sunshine we got in 2004 triggered a disturbing measure of crop yields actually decreasing through, what appears, a CO2 bootstrapping effect.