theenergycollective.com - 6/23/2009
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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
– John W. Gardner
The quote above came to mind when I read ‘Worst Case’ Scenario: New Report Says World Is Warming Faster than Thought :
Two degrees — that value has long been ...
Plimer resorts to attack as the best form of defence
guardian.co.uk 8/12/2009 — The champion of climate change denial has responded to me, but creates more questions than he answers Well, well, this becomes ever more interesting. A few weeks ago, after I attacked the crazy claims about climate change in his book Heaven and ...
Climate Bill Could Dramatically Increase US Energy Security
switchboard.nrdc.org 9/24/2009 — One of the key findings from a new NRDC climate policy study is that policies to support CO2 capture and sequestration at power plants and industrial facilities could also help recover almost 37 billion barrels of stranded domestic oil by ...
Going once, going twice . . . .
theenergycollective.com 5/24/2009 — As the American Clean Energy & Security Act (ACES) 2009 (i.e. Waxman-Markey) shows itself, it reveals some different thinking on emissions trading to that in Europe, notably in the area of allowance distribution.
An emissions trading system is designed to establish an ...
How meat contributes to global warming
sciam.com 1/28/2009 — Scientific American: Most of us are aware that our cars, our coal-generated electric power and even our cement factories adversely affect the environment. Until recently, however, the foods we eat had gotten a pass in the discussion. Yet according to ...
CO2 is green: the TV advert making viewers choke
guardian.co.uk 9/29/2009 — A TV advert paid for by an oil industry lobbyist telling Americans "more CO2 results in a greener earth" would be almost funny if it weren't so depressing "Is this a joke?" splutters one of the comments underneath the YouTube video of a new ...
Ten big green ideas from the Geneva Motor Show
guardian.co.uk 3/4/2009 — Car makers may be in trouble, but that's not stopping them rolling out new green ideas at the Geneva Motor Show, writes motoring journalist Richard Aucock 1. GM hasn't killed the electric car In 2006, a documentary film Called Who Killed the ...
Why clean coal is years away
usnews.com 3/19/2009 — U.S. News and World Report: America runs on coal. It's cheap, plentiful (at least for another 100 years or so), and comfortingly domestic. Two hundred years ago, it powered the industrial revolution. Today, it spits out nearly half of the country's ...
Carbon storage might not be so permanent
cleanbreak.ca 2/16/2009 — Okay, as far as the concept of carbon capture and storage goes, the idea — technologically — is intriguing. What many readers of this blog don’t like is how the industry talks about this technology like it’s here today so, ...
Document alert: Annual Energy Review 2009
theenergycollective.com 3/31/2009 — The US Department of Energy has released the latest edition of their Annual Energy Review (from the Executive Summary):
The projections in AEO2009 look beyond current economic and financial woes and focus on factors that drive U.S. energy markets in the longer term. Key issues highlighted ...
An open letter to Steve Levitt
realclimate.org 24 days ago — Dear Mr. Levitt,
The problem of global warming is so big that solving it will require creative thinking from many disciplines. Economists have much to contribute to this effort, particularly with regard to the question of how various means of ...
Would You Pay $175 To Save The Climate? —
Green on HuffingtonPost.com 6/23/2009
The Congressional Budget Office has examined the costs -- and rebates -- being engineered into the Congressional climate solution. The result: The average household will pay about $175 a year. The richest among us will pay more, about $245, and the ...
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