He did this in 2012? And no one said anything about it?

Yeah amazing that this is just now making the rounds. You don't often see entertainers stepping outside of their comic setting to make a statement like this, but I think that's also something that makes such a thing more powerful.

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What a hoax, just like global warming, oh wait we go it wrong so lets call it climate change. Yea that's it.

Yes it decided science 100% of scientists that believe that there is global warming say there is global warming. Settled science.

The oil and gas people probably tried to bury it.

Happily whistling as I walk by the troll sitting in the corner...

I understand Dave is a noted expert on science and climate change. Of course, he was a weatherman, but his degree is in radio and television broadcasting. So EVEN BACK THEN, he was recognized for his wide-ranging mastery of difficult subjects.

As long as we Americans want to waste cheap electricity and drive SUVs, we don't really get to complain about where it comes from. Sure, fracking needs some common sense regulation, but let's talk about how many people have died to maintain our supply of cheap foreign oil.

This is self centered NIMBYism at its worst. Either put solar panels on your house and drive a Volt, or shut up.

And if the panels are installed and the Volt is running strong?

That is rather a strawman argument there man. We do get to complain about the source of our energy if that source is poisonous and deadly. The dependency on oil has been orchestrated because the US economy is backed by oil dollars. No matter how bad it got and all of the deaths and wars it has caused, it does not justify fracking.

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You show up so rarely nowadays, is it just because you want to post crap like this?

He's native advertising or an AstroTurfer. He probably just got paid.

You may not like it, but it's not a strawman argument. If we were fracking in Uganda and shipping the gas here, no one would be complaining. Any serious environmentalist would rather we burn natural gas than coal or oil.

I'm not in a position to argue about why Americans use so much oil. But the fact is that they do, and if natural gas displaces that, then you calculate the net benefit. The only way oil comes out on top is Nimbyism and a disregard for the people we kill overseas.

Nuclear, when located away from population zones and areas of high seismic activity is a much better alternative to fracking. It doesn't carry any caveats in contaminating or draining aquifers and not being a fossil fuel it doesn't have the carbon emissions cost. Unfortunately Three Mile and now Fukushima have made that unlikely.

I do agree with Mikus that it needs to be put in perspective. The other point is that while not ideal, fracking is a much better alternative to coal in terms of emission cost.