I will offer my thoughts below and am interested to hear yours.

This weekend’s climate question is inspired by a Washington Post op-ed from my friend Mike Tidwell, “A climate-change activist prepares for the worst.”

Tidwell is executive director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and, like most climate hawks, better informed than 98% of policymakers and the media on climate science and likely impacts.  Still, I don’t do any of the things he does — nor would I recommend them:

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I know you have some things that you want to get off your chest….

The normally semi-rational USA Today thinks a good response to higher gasoline prices due to MidEast unrest is more domestic drilling, even though that would have no noticeable impact on U.S. gasoline prices — ever! — according to the US Energy Information Administration (see “EIA: New offshore drilling will lower gasoline prices in 2030 a few pennies a gallon).

CAP’s Daniel J. Weiss offers the opposing view.

Unrest in Libya and Egypt is driving up oil prices, stirring concerns that gasoline could hit $5 a gallon by summer. Like a smoker’s persistent cough, it’s another warning to change our ways. America sends nearly $1 billion daily overseas to purchase oil, which is nearly half the trade deficit. Nearly 20% of our oil imports come from the Persian Gulf, where instability causes roller coaster prices.

“Drill, baby, drill” won’t get us out of this mess.

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