While NASA may have miscalculated the hottest year on record recently (not 2005 but 1934), the science of global climate change and the extent that change  is caused by human activity is widely to be considered sound. Sure, there are some scientists who cast doubt on these theories, just as there are scientists who cast doubt on the theory of evolution, but most agree that the earth as a whole is getting hotter and it is getting hotter faster each year.
    If you dismiss the scientists as part of some vast left-wing conspiracy to further a radical environmental agenda, perhaps you place more faith in captains of industry and capital. If so, then all you need to do is simply follow the money.
    Corporations are getting greener. Some of it has to do with public relations, but some of it has to do with the fact that these companies (if not the captains themselves) plan on being around for the next 20, 50 or 70 years. And it might help to know where the earth is going. They know cheap energy is disappearing and the cost of consuming it is increasing.
    Now municipalities like Cape Elizabeth and South Portland are exploring what they and their citizens can do to be more efficient and try to get away from the practice of getting all our energy by burning things.
    Businesses know you need to spend money to make money – or save money. And we know one thing for sure– you get more for your money today than you will tomorrow.
–Ward Peck