CLIMATE GATE REVISITED: John R. Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama - Huntsville and contributor to reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on climate change considers the IPCC consensus to be overstated and unduly alarmist:

It sounds like you're on the side of the angels when you say you want to save the planet. But if you're talking about preventing energy from expanding in the Third World, you're condemning people to perpetual poverty. What's more, it's economic development that creates the cleanest environments we have. You don't find clean rivers or clean air in the poorest countries.

Less energy use won’t protect the environment, more energy use will.