As with The Best of Climate Progress — Winter 2007, I’m hoping to save new readers time by culling the archives myself. It’s my version of a clip show:

• One more Hansen (et al.) must read — What is “dangerous” human interference with climate?
• The growth rate of carbon emissions has TRIPLED
• U.S. Media Duped by Bush, Foreign Media not Fooled
• 2006: Second Most Extreme Weather Ever
• GM Volts to the Lead
• Congress should say NO to coal-to-diesel
• AP & MSNBC: Climate Progress Knows its Crap
• Don’t Discount the Stern Review
• 26 Climate Myths Debunked

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He may be a “venture-capital star” who is now putting a lot of money into biofuels — but he is no clean tech expert, as he proved during a keynote address at ThinkEquity Partners’ ThinkGreen conference in San Francisco. In remarks that should worry anybody relying on his judgment, Khosla said:

Forget plug-ins. They are nice toys. But they will not be material to climate change.

Very, very wrong. Plug ins are likely to be a central strategy for dealing with climate change, as readers of Climate Progress know (see below). I hope cellulosic ethanol will be, but that still remains to be seen.

Contrary to what Khosla says, affordable cellulosic ethanol probably requires a major breakthrough — and to play a major role in climate change, it needs a major new infrastructure investment. I recently test-drove a prototype plug in that avoids the need for a battery breakthrough (more on that after the Detroit auto show). And plug ins don’t need a major new infrastructure investment. They are not toys.

Khosla should stick with what he knows.

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• The Car of the Future: Plug-in Hybrids
• Plug in Hybrids are Green (Duh!)
• Iacocca: Plug-in hybrids, not hydrogen “the wave of the future”
• Why I don’t agree with James Kunstler about peak oil and the “end of suburbia”
• The Book to Read on “Freedom from Oil”
• A New Fleet of Plug-in Hybrid books
• GM may make 60,000 plug-in hybrids in 2010
• Google Jump-Starts Plug-In Hybrids