It is the title of Al Gore's new book. The choice to which he referred was whether to take climate seriously and develop non-polluting energy sources to prevent global warming, or continue with business as usual, and ignore the warnings of climate scientists. There are plenty of deniers ready and willing to take big oil and big coal's money to beat the drum for BAU.

Here's how. Sign up to blog, write, lecture and make a nuisance of yourself telling people that global warming and climate change are a hoax perpetrated by Al Gore and President Obama. The Oil companies will pay you big bucks. Exxon Mobil is spending enormous amounts of money to hire people to do just that. It's sad but true.

You see it time and time again. Stories about climate change are always overwhelmed by deniers about ten to one. If nothing else, they are organized. One is tempted to tell them, "Fine. Keep on polluting and using fossil fuels and don't worry. We can't do anything about it any way. PS, I hope you don't own sea shore property that disappears because of climate change. Yes, it's all Al Gore's fault because he is becoming a billionaire on his movie, An Inconvenient Truth...

The tiny town of Coldwater Kansas once again proves that Kansas is in the forefront of the state of denial. From passing laws prohibiting the installation of wind turbines in the Flint Hills to forcing schools to teach Creationism, Kansas carries the banner for denial of anything that has happened since the dark ages. The tiny Western Star newspaper, "The Official Newspaper of Coldwater, Kansas," has written an open letter in a two page spread to Al Gore. Why they think he would read it is a mystery...

In most discussions in which people can comment there's always one commenter saying that people who are environmentally aware are all whiners and that global warming is a hoax and the more CO2 the better because plants need it to flurish. They proclaim that science proves global warming doesn't exist. It's a conspiracy of the left wing liberals who simply want to make money in some mysterious way from the ideas that clean energy is good. ....