China’s people are learning the truth about the air pollution that’s causing a huge number of them, estimated to be over one million, every year to drop dead from lung disease. They’ve been unhappy about this for many years, but …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Oil Companies Are Placing Big Bets–With Your Money
My friend Cameron Atwood offers a fabulously rational approach to climate change mitigation as a comment to my post: Understanding the Ties Between Corporate Funding and the Findings of Climate Scientists (scroll down to see it). Thanks, Cameron. That makes …
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Bright Young 2GreenEnergy Intern from Russia To Take on Difficult, Controversial Task: Critical Analysis of Her Mother Country’s Approach to Oil, Clean Energy
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m working with an intern from Russia, a brilliant woman who’s working on a master’s program in Sustainable Energy Engineering (renewable energy, power generation and energy utilization in the smart buildings). After a …
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Prediction: Our Culture Will Eventually Reconnect with Science
I laugh out loud when I see stuff like this: Al Roker’s bold assertion on Larry King’s show to the effect that he thinks climate change is real. From what I read about him, I’m sure Roker is a wonderful …
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Energy and Transportation in the 21st Century
A reader notes: The auto and oil industries created our mobility. Wasn’t that good? It worked, didn’t it? It’s not that simple. Or maybe I could say that it depends on how you define “worked.” Observers of the energy and transportation …
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How Will Big Oil Manage To Continue Its Profit Stream?
It won’t. Many people hypothesize that Big Oil will go down the same road that Big Tobacco has been travelling over the last 50 years, i.e., hunker down, ignore the contempt of civilization, and use its vast wealth and power …
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Big Oil and Big Money
In a post yesterday on Shell and the rest of the oil companies, I mentioned that I could have chosen any of hundreds of examples of corruption between Big Oil and U.S. law-makers. Here’s another beauty: each senator who voted …
Is the Oil Industry Becoming “Less Aloof?”
I’ve long believed that Royal Dutch Shell is the least obnoxious of the big oil companies (though I may be wrong). Here, Ben van Beurden, Shell’s CEO explains why he thinks the oil industry needs to take a more active …
Coal Won’t Go Gentle Into That Good Night
The ad below is a call to action focused on Australian coal miners, but it illustrates a larger point: there are interest groups on all sides of every issue—some helpful, others harmful. Yet getting rid of destructive practices isn’t as …
Peak Oil and Its Relevance To Today’s Energy Picture
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty notes: Peak oil, or peak anything for that matter, is about production peaking, not about production running out. There’s nothing uncertain in this, there’s just misunderstanding. Hubbert’s peak (his prediction that the production of oil would …
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