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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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With Arianna Huffington’s (massive) cashing in as AOL buys Huffington Post for over $300 million, a number of stories are at play. One of the questions: Will the horde of (reported) 6000 bloggers who posted without financial compensation still post there? As one of that horde, a number of people have asked that question of […]

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Today, in a gesture that legitimately frustrated many, the President walked across Lafeyette Park to give an address to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  There the President was, smiling and thanking for an introduction a man, Tom Donahue, who has worked hard to destroy President Obama and to undermine President Obama’s agenda.  The President’s speech […]

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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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In the face of the winter storm that hit the nation, Texans suffered a series of rolling blackouts as some 50 fossil-fueled power plants (coal and natural gas) shut down due to frozen pipes and other problems. (See: Blacked Out Texas: Seeking understanding or Falsely laying blame?) In the face of readily available information, including […]

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Black-outs in the face of winter storms is a problem too often faced by too many Americans due, in no small part, to under-investment in our aging electrical system that experts suggest merit a D minus grade (perhaps on a sliding scale). Washington, DC, storms regularly see blacked out neighborhoods and the Maryland utility Pepco […]

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Construction and use of buildings account for a major share of global warming emissions. Depending on how one calculates, allocating roughly 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to this built infrastructure is roughly correct.  Heating … cooling … lighting … building materials … etc, it all adds up (and up … and up). […]

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When it comes to security planning one of the oldest adages is “Plan for the worst, hope for the best.” For example, in the business management real, IT managers plan need to plan and prepare for back-ups of all data in the event of catastrophic failure of the main system. This adage certainly has its […]

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BruceMcF is a thinker re rail transportation who merits heeding … in this guest post, he looks at Amtrak’s value as it faces the budgetary axe threat from the Republican Study Committee. The Republicans have won one of the established political Power Positions in American Politics, and so they propose to eliminate funding for Amtrak: […]

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This guest post from Veritas Curat (“the truth cures”) merits reading …  As currently structured, our economic system is defined simply: growth is good, stagnation bad, and contraction disastrous. In fact, the demand for ever-continuing growth faces Malthusian-like challenges about sustainability in terms of global resources. For a century, humanity’s growth has been propelled via […]

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