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Carpe Diem! Killed bin Laden? Now kill oil …

May 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment

In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush had a moment to change history and turn America(ns) toward a more prosperous and secure future. Rather than seizing the day to announce a plan to end America’s oil addiction and ‘turn oil into salt’, President Bush called on Americans to go out and shop while […]

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Tags: Energy · government energy policy · oil · politics

Drill, Baby, Drill: THE answer to Libyan oil disruption

February 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments

Globally, humanity faces many serious challenges that relate to resource challenges. Writ large there is a calculation: # of people * resource use per capita = demand on resources.  Very simply, that last (the “demand”) is overwhelming natural resources: we are overfishing, tropical forests are disappearing, top soil disappears in dust storms, acquifer water is […]

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Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · government energy policy · oil · peak oil

Republican Whitfield Hates Investments That Pay Off for Taxpayer: Killing the Greening the Capitol Initiative

February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Republican Whitfield Hates Investments That Pay Off for Taxpayer: Killing the Greening the Capitol Initiative

As part of the general agenda to drag America into a nightmarish Mr Rogers’ neighborhood, the Republican House Majority is pushing through legislation that will savage the U.S. government’s ability to monitor risks to the public and inform decision-makers about how to move forward to address these threats. And, they are also savaging programs — […]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · environmental · environmental economics · government energy policy · green · political symbols · politics

Peak Oil (wiki)Leaking Into The Public Discussion

February 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment

As per Guardian reporting, U.S. diplomats in Saudi Arabia have picked up very serious information over the years calling into question Saudi abilities to increase oil production in line with what energy agencies (such as IEA and EIA) have predicting they could accomplish to meet growing world demand in the coming years,  whether the Saudis […]

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Tags: Energy · government energy policy · oil · peak oil

The curious case of Fred Upton

February 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on The curious case of Fred Upton

This guest post comes from Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth. Erich layouts the painful case of a Republican politician sacrificing knowledge for ideological pandering. Sadly, pandering to Koch Brother backed anti-science attitudes isn’t limited to Upton. We all know a Fred Upton. He’s the coworker who was your friend until he got […]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics · republican party

The Earth’s Not Worth Saving

January 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment

This guest post from Veritas Curat (“the truth cures”) merits reading …  As currently structured, economics tell us that “the Earth’s not worth saving. “Socialism collapsed because it did not allow prices to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow prices to tell the ecological truth.” – Oystein Dahle, former […]

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Tags: climate change · economics · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental economics · Global Warming · government energy policy · guest post · politics

Stupid Goes Viral: The Last Stand of the Climate Zombies?

October 31st, 2010 · Comments Off on Stupid Goes Viral: The Last Stand of the Climate Zombies?

R L Miller — building on tremendous work by Brad Johnson — has done a real service by seeking to track down every single Republican candidate for Federal Office to determine whether they agree with the science and believe in action (Climate Hawk / Hero), sort of agree with the science but don’t really do […]

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Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy · guest post · political symbols · politics · republican party

Christian Science Monitor joins the scam machine …

October 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Have to say, writ large, of the ‘traditional print’ outlets in the United States, the Christian Science Monitor has traditionally rated quite high with me. While it isn’t part of my every day reading, I have valued it when I’ve gotten my hands dirty reading it. In other words, it really was a bit of […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · energy efficiency · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy

The Breitbart of the Climate Change World?

July 27th, 2010 · 7 Comments

A simple fact: Andrew Breitbart has been incredibly effective. With material that legal investigations, reviews by traditional journalism institutions, and other inspections have shown to be “severely edited” material utterly misrepresenting actual events, Breitbart provided the ammunition that enabled the takedown of an organization (ACORN) that had helped — quite literally — 100,000s of people […]

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Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · Energy · energy efficiency · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · politics

Energy COOL Roofing is Cool: Secretary Chu takes action

July 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has advocated cool roofing as a very high payoff tool to improving energy efficiency in the built environment, reducing heat island impacts, and helping to move us forward in climate change mitigation. Yesterday, Secretary Chu announced a series of initiatives to spur cool roof deployment in (on) Department of Energy […]

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