The Cro Magnon man, aka the modern human, is considered to have appeared abotu 35 000 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon

Given the fact in the article, shouldn't we conclude the Australian aboriginals are, for instance, neanderthals by origin?

The last time I checked, the real cost of solar electricity was several times bigger than the cost of electricity as we pay it. If that is true, this whole industry survives only because it is subsidised, i.e. we all pay for it.

No. This not a body count. This is about a civilisation war we are currently in.

interests.

It is hard to estimate the amount of money that is being poured into climatology DUE to the current alarmist hysteria. All sorts of projects from within universities of from NGOs depend crucially on maintaining the alarmist spirit.

Side note: back in the 80ies, the current alarm was not global warming but global cooling. Though I lived at the wrong side of the Iron Curtain some info from the West still managed to leak through the curtain and, yes, the scare of the day was global cooling. End of side note.

Nuclear power is unavoidable if we want to free ourselves from the oil&gas economy (because it makes us dependent on the Arabs, Iran, and Russia, and that is not a good thing). The windmills and solar panels are not an option. The controlled nuclear synthesis is far far away in time. For the near and not so near future, the nuclear fission is the way.

Shoal gas from the America reduces Europe's dependence on Russia and Iran. That is vital for us. It seems that the North Sea gas deposits are getting depleted and Norway is far from able to satisfy Europe's need for gas. Russia is using natural gas as a tool for achieving her political goals. For obvious reasons, Iran is an even less trustworthy supplier.

For the foreseeable future, America's LNG seems to be the way to free ourselves from the energy racketeering, exercised by hostile Asian countries. I hear that Gasprom is already suffering financially largely due to the diversification of Europe's gas import. The USA's LNG hurts them. And that is wonderful.

W.r.t. the whole wikileaks affair, there is one crucial thing I fail to understand. How? How did this these guys (Assange and company) become possessors of that information? What is the mechanism of the leaks? The only explanation I have is that many people at key positions at the Pentagon, CIA, etc. are traitors and leak deliberately info to the so called whistle blowers. Under that premise, it seems to me the most natural course of action for the American authorities is hunt down the traitors, not to whine to Assange not to publish. It should not be too difficult! After all, the info is sent to Assange and company over some physical medium, not by telepathy! How come that after more than an year high profile leaks there are no convictions and trials for treason? I am not an American and from my perspective the actions of wikileaks are obviously onesided. Even if such leaks were performed against every government in the world it would still be not a fair game since many governments don't give **** about exposure and cannot be embarassed (North Korea, Sudan, etc.). And the current situation is that these leaks are targeted exclusively against the US. I doubt that Assange would have the guts to publish something very damaging against Russia or Iran, in both cases ha can get murdered (think Litvinenko w.r.t. Russia or S. Rushdie w.r.t. Iran; Rushdie did not get murdered but it was close).

This new environmentalist religion is going too far!

Doesn't anybody recall the huge deal about "global cooling" about 20 years ago or so?

I do. Unfortunately, it seems some people desperately need a cause to fight for; the concrete cause is irrelevant, it is the fight that intoxicates them. Global warming, global winter, whatever...

They love to present the EU as the creator of "loony rules" and regulations.

The EU ARE creators of loony rules and regulations. This whole fight-the-global-warming craziness is just that, craziness. Most likely, there is no human-caused global warming at all, and the EU is fighting windmills here. Europe is facing huge energy hunger, that is evident, but the way out is to build more power stations (preferably, nuclear), not to limit the power of the light bulbs of the diagonal of the plasma TVs.