Oil Demand, Disinformation Rise
The Financial Times today reports that the International Energy Agency said global oil demand growth in 2004 is set to reach 2.5 per cent, the fastest rate since 1996. The increase in demand by volume will approach 2m barrels a day, the largest gain since 1988.

Meanwhile, our climate disinformation campaign continues to muddy the waters. Reuters reports that Australian scientists have found the Earth may be more resilient to global warming than first thought, and they say a warmer world means a wetter planet, encouraging more plants to grow and soak up greenhouse gases. "The global water cycle has changed in response to greenhouse emissions," almost 100 Australian greenhouse scientists said in an annual statement on their research received on Wednesday.

I love it. Scientists releasing an annual statement on their research, rather than actually publishing it in peer-reviewed journals. Meanwhile, the media and the public don't make the distinction. It is days like today that I feel hopeful that we may achieve the goal of one species in my lifetime.

- nostradamusfunkadelic, 10:14 AM | |