Global warming doesn?t seem like an inconvenient truth to John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., the giant U.S. subsidiary of Netherlands-based Royal Dutch/Shell Group.

“Shell takes the position that the debate is over,” Hofmeister, who is on a 50-city, U.S. talking/listening tour of energy industry stakeholders, told a packed Greater Baltimore Committee-hosted business gathering Friday of the greenhouse gas-blamed global warming controversy. “This country should be embracing the issue [of managing greenhouse gases].”