It’s always eluded me how religion and politics got to the position we find them in the U.S. today. In particular, how did it come to be that the most extreme right-wingers on energy, i.e., the fossil fuel zealots, turn out …
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Oilfield Prayer Day
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1400-Mile-Long Great Barrier Reef Has Lost the Battle to Global Warming
In the past decade or so, I’ve begun to read the “In Memoriam” sector of the alumni magazine of the college I attended in the 1970s, hoping that I don’t read about someone I know. For all those who read …
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The Case Against ExxonMobil Re: Suppressing the Truth About Climate Change
In response to my recent post on the legal action being taken against ExxonMobil for its role in hiding the truth about climate change, frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: I know of no law or Statute broken by Exxon in regard …
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The (Potential) Simplicity of a Carbon Tax
Here’s a short video, featuring Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, a prominent climate scientist and Leonardo DeCaprio, for those wanting to understand the concept of a carbon tax. And speaking of DeCaprio, here’s one on the reason wes need a carbon tax. …
Totally Off-Topic: Existentialist Poetry
It’s the birthday of e.e. cummings, which gives me the opportunity to present one of my favorite poems, and offer a short comment on it. a man who had fallen among thieves
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Presentation of CleanTech–Electric Transportation in Particular
A few readers have commented that my colleague Fritz Maffry has some excellent insights into the future of technology, including, of course, cleantech. Here’s his latest installment that includes a solid discussion of the electric vehicle curve: We have …
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Discussion on Private Property and Civilized Society
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Cameron Atwood writes: The most basic paradigms by which our societies now operate are far too often sourced in some deception or some novel and baseless belief. Examples include the commodification of natural resources like water, forests, oil, …
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More on the ExxonMobil / Climate Change Criminal Investigation
Here’s a note I thought I would share from Greenpeace on the litigation against ExxonMobil re: their understanding, which has been in place for as long as 40 years, of the role that fossil fuel consumption would inevitably play in destroying …
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When It Comes to Regulating Fossil Fuel Giants, There Is No Justice
Here’s a tale of a billionaire coal baron who wants to become governor of West Virginia. There’s a problem, though: he owes $15 million in mine safety fines in six states that he’s apparently unwilling to pay. Jim Justice, an …
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The Validity of Nuclear Energy
Here’s an article that will make my pro-nuclear group happy: an interview with Rachel Slaybaugh, giving an interview in preface to her talk at the SXSW Eco conference next week. There is no doubt in my mind that the majority …
