Question: We’re all familiar with the child obesity issue associated with fast food in the U.S. But what about the effects of the chemical pesticides that are in such heavy use to keep McDonald’s supplied with the 3.5 billion pounds …
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Question: In 2013, there were 10,883 peer-reviewed scientific studies to the effect that global warming is real and caused by humans. In the same year, how many such studies took the opposite position? (New 2GreenEnergy readers should be aware that …
Question: Tom Steyer, who made his fortune in finance, has pledged to spend “any amount” of his net worth to battle the forces behind dirty energy and to pressure the U.S. Congress to address climate change. What, in fact, is …
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Question: According to Australia’s Institute for Economics and Peace, how much money would the world have saved if it had been at peace since 2006? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: In addition to the obvious (death, …
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Question: What percentage of our planet’s coral reefs have died over the last 30 years due to the warming of the oceans? What percentage of ocean species live on these reefs? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: …
Question: Is the practice of turning crude from tar sands into gasoline more environmentally destructive than the processing of conventional crude? If so, how many times more damaging is it? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Question: What role can (and should) basalt play in the subject of carbon sequestration? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Our civilization, as denizens of planet Earth, is badly losing the battle to hold the concentration of …
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Question: How many bequerels per cubic meter of seawater is safe? Hold on. Wait a second. What’s a bequerel? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: As my colleague Mike Conley writes: Fear and paranoia are the two …
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Question: How many people went to the website of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and registered a comment supporting Net Neutrality? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Hint: It’s by far the greatest outpouring of support for anything …
Question: Since 2014 just wrapped up, it’s a good time to look at certain trends we see in renewable energy. By what percentage would you guess PV installations in 2014 grew vs. where they were in 2008? Also: How many …
