There are books that you just want to love, truly, but can’t no matter how hard you try. Anne Rockwell’s Why are the ice caps melting? The Dangers of Global Warming is such a book. This is “Level 2” book, aimed a K-4 audience (ages 5-9). As one who regular gives Climate Project presentations to elementary […]
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Energy Bookshelf: Why are the ice caps melting?
March 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Energy Bookshelf: Why are the ice caps melting?
Tags: energy bookshelf · Global Warming
Judging Effectiveness of the Black Hole of Denial …
March 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments
So, at the end of the day, how effective was Heartland Institute’s Black Hole of Denial in New York City? Well, one way to judge is via the media performance. As DeSmogBlog notes: Mainstream media seem to have caught up with climate change denial (caught up with reality, really), just in time to humiliate the […]
Tags: environmental · global cooling · Global Warming · global warming deniers · skeptic
Is E-Coal E-Cool?
March 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Is E-Coal E-Cool?
NewEarth Renewable Energy is moving from development to true commercializatio of its ECO Clean Coal or E-Coal. NewEarth is promoting E-Coal as a green coal supplement or, even, substitute. E-Coal comes from processed biomass such as trees, seaweed, algae, bamboo, switchgrass or otherwise. The process: “Eco Torrefactio” and “ECO-Densification” which process the biomass into a coal […]
Tags: coal · Energy · environmental · Global Warming
Talking Environment to America’s Baptists
March 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Talking Environment to America’s Baptists
Al Gore talked to the Southern Baptist Convention with a somewhat unheralded talk that, reportedly, went over strongly. From Robert Parham’s editorial at Ethics Daily.COM, Gore Delivers Most Important Baptist Address in 30 years Former Vice President Al Gore delivered the most energetic, substantive and potentially transformative speech made by a Baptist to a Baptist […]
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A Black Hole of Denial?
February 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on A Black Hole of Denial?
Black holes collapse on themselves, with a such a density that they change the path of light with no light escaping them. In coming days, the Global Warming disinformation organization, the Heartland Institute (“the leading propaganda mill sowing confusion about climate science“), will convene a Global Warming skeptic/delayer/denier coven with the 2008 International Conference on Climate […]
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Geoengineering: basic principles, some thoughts, some questions
February 28th, 2008 · 15 Comments
In the face of the potential for catastrophic climate change and global warming, “geo-engineering” is an arena getting a little attention and some press, such as W Broad, NYT Times Geoengineering is the deliberate modification of Earth’s environment on a large scale “to suit human needs and promote habitability”. One can argue that all efforts […]
Tags: agriculture · Global Warming · wind power
Eliminating coal from the electricity equation …
February 28th, 2008 · 7 Comments
This diary will be a relative short and sweet one. For once, no links. Apologies, no photographs. Just a very simply outline of how the United States could, without Heruclean efforts, eliminate coal-fired electricity from the electrical system by 2030. And, do so while improving the economy.
Tags: coal · electricity · Energy · environmental · Global Warming
Harry & Louising Global Warming Legislation
February 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments
To be clear, the Lieberman-Warner Coal Subsidy Act (mischaracterized as the American Climate Security Act) is inadequate and bad legislation. It violates basic principles for Global Warming legislation. (For example, it does not meet scientific minimums for giving a 50% chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.) And, the Coal-Subsidy Act is a corporate giveaway of resources (such as the […]
Tags: climate change · Global Warming · government energy policy · lieberman-warner
GM’s Lutz: Still a Putz on Global Warming
February 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
General Motors’ Vice-Chairman Bob Lutz is a bit perturbed about how the blogosphere called him out for calling Global Warming a “total crock of s–t” in a meeting with reporters. In a post entitled Talk about a Crock, Lutz takes on those who had the audacity to criticize him for his idiocy and calls on […]
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GM’s Lutz: Global Warming “total crock of S–t!”
February 17th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Should anyone wonder why General Motors is in such trouble? When a senior leader (Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman) states that Global Warming is a “total crock of S–t,” might GM shareholders wonder what his core intellectual capacity is? Really, should a Corporate leader be spouting off on the record like that? If he is so […]
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