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Smithsonian Removes EV1 Exhibit
johnMG writes to mention a Seattle PI article on the Smithsonian's move to remove the EV1 electric sedan from display. From the article: "The upcoming film 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' questions why General Motors created the battery-powered vehicles and then crushed the program a few years later. The film opens June 30th. GM happens to be one of the Smithsonian's biggest contributors. But museum and GM officials say that had nothing to do with the removal of the EV1 from display."
A link to a free article regarding the lost icecap sensors is at http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23640/ This article has several other FREE links in it.
It is just as likely that homo-sapiens are currenly holding off an Ice Age as they are helping bring in "global warming". The objective science is pretty thin either way. Maybe we'll be smacked by an asteroid or rogue gamma ray and end the agument once and for all (or until something else crawls out of the muck to take the issue up again...)
Anyhow, the answer to your question who will be burning [Fossil Fuels] is this: who ever can get at them for an energy source cheaper than any alternative. (India, China, evolved racoons 2 million years from now...)
Right now, it is whoever can pay the market rate (i.e. the Industrialized Nations).
Let's say there is some "day after tomorrow" or "an inconvenient truth" scenario in our future... and humans are whacked back to Ice-Age times, or "worse"... Do you think the raco-sapiens will give a whit about burning cheap hydrocarbons vs "the environment"?
In the long long long run, the planet will be a cinder either way.
If you really care about saving the planet - it is a lost cause. If you want to save human kind, then you should push for high-tech and space programs and spread people all over, off this doomed rock.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.