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Five Percent a Year is all we ask …

May 5th, 2010 · 8 Comments

Our combined energy and climate challenges and opportunities are incredibly complex and interrelated issues. Throw in other resource challenges, economic challenges, and a myriad of other factors and, well, the complexity can overwhelm any and all. Clarity of targets matter. Ever more experts are endorsing the call to create a path to return the atmospheric […]

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Tags: carbon dioxide · climate legislation · Energy · environmental

What’s in a name?

May 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments

No matter the word put against it, humanity is driving change in climate and other aspects of our living space. For decades, scientists, scholars, and public opinion pollsters have sought to place a name against the phenomena. Global Warming … Climate Change … Global Change … Climate Chaos; Climate Disruption … Climate Catastrophe … Climate […]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming

Did you chant “Drill, Baby, Drill”?

May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The choice is rather stark … Do we follow the voices chanting in the below or do we listen to The Bear and pay attention to the Friends of the Earth? This Friends of the Earth ad should strike us all hard in the face.

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Tags: Energy

Drive, Baby, Drive Less … Drill, Baby, Drill Less …

May 5th, 2010 · Comments Off on Drive, Baby, Drive Less … Drill, Baby, Drill Less …

Courtesy of The Bear Party.

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Tags: Energy · politics

Drill, Baby, Drill: Drill the bottomless well

May 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Paul Krugman’s Drilling, Disaster, Denial is both a great OPED piece to see in the traditional media and, well, a troubling read. Great because of its focus on how one of environmentalism greatest problems might, in fact, have been its successes which could have helped lead to complacency in the public, undermining efforts to build […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · journalism