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Entries from July 2007

A powerful call (by a powerful man) for Energy Efficiency

July 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on A powerful call (by a powerful man) for Energy Efficiency

Last week, Royal Dutch Shell’s CEO (Jeroen van der Veer) published an OPED in the Times of London: Hard times and hard truths dictate future:  Efforts to fight global warming will be wasted unless we concentrate on energy efficiency.  This is a valuable discussion, in no small part, through the holistic nature of the “hard […]

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Tags: energy efficiency

Krauthammer’s Fact-Free Foray into Energy Issues

July 1st, 2007 · 5 Comments

Charles Krauthammer’s The Tax-Free Lunch shows again the Washington Post’s willingness to publish fact-free OpEds.  Like Andrew Ferguson’s fact-free attack on Al Gore (and the Post’s lack of apology for publishing this trash), Krauthammer takes great liberty with reality, speaking commonly known urban legends, to confuse rather than enlighten. Let’s take a look at Krauthammer’s […]

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Tags: automobiles · energy efficiency

Deniers new Hot Topic: Predicting a Global Freeze

July 1st, 2007 · 9 Comments

The obfuscation effort, the campaign to confuse the globe on Global Warming continues unabated despite Exxon’s well-publicized claims to cut off funding for their campaign.  A coming cold day for a warm globe, in that stalwart of rational journalism — The Washington Times, is another shot in the battle to confuse on facts to inhibit […]

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Tags: General · global cooling · Global Warming · global warming deniers