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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Energy'
Five Percent a Year is all we ask …
May 5th, 2010 · 8 Comments
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · journalism
Massive Electricity Slick Spreads Across Gulf Of Mexico
May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
AENN’s correspondent Rei reports from AE New Orleans about a disastrous event in the AE Gulf of Mexico. AE Lousiana residents are bracing today for the arrival of an electricity slick spreading across the Alternate Gulf of Mexico after efforts to hold it at bay proved largely unsuccessful.
Tags: Energy
The dangers of listening to Bobby Jindal
May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Louisiana’s governor Bobby Jindal (R) seems to be a dangerous man to listen to …
Is an Undersea Volcano of Oil enough to slap us in the face?
May 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments
We have to wonder what it might take to get American society to recognize how damaging our addiction to oil is at some fundamental level. Our addiction weakens us financially, puts our economy’s health at the whim of foreign actors, helps fund those threatening us, shortens our lives due to health impacts, threatens our future […]
Tags: Energy
Shaving away at our fossil foolish addictions … some thoughts
May 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments
With the quite stark contrast between the Department of Interior’s go-ahead to offshore wind turbines (Cape Wind) and the worsening disaster of ever more oil coming over the Horizon from the Deepwater (e.g, Deepwater Horizon’s explosion and resulting dumping of untold amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico), people are turning to the question: […]
Tags: Energy
Does ACCCE money speak with the Washington Post?
May 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Several months ago, The Washington Post editorial page ever so innocently asked: What’s going on? The issue at hand: that scientists are clear as to the realities of human impacts on the climate but the public is confused. Contrary to what you may have read lately, there are few reputable scientists who would disagree with […]
Tags: Energy · Washington Post