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Sierra Club launches new pushback campaign against coal propaganda
More like this please: CoalIsNotTheAnswer.org
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Google offers two Halloween tools to cut household energy costs
Photo: sascha First a tool to prevent drunk emailing; now this: The smarties at Google have put together some treats in time for Halloween so you won’t be tricked by household energy waste. A list of ways to lower your energy bill includes tips to save water, cut heating costs, and reduce appliance electricity use, […]
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‘Global warming comes from within’–Is heat at the Earth’s core the real cause of global warming?
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: We all live on a thin crust that floats on a huge ball of molten iron, and at its core, the Earth’s temperature is over 5000 degrees C! It’s pretty far fetched to think a few parts per million of CO2 can have […]
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Identifying one of the great misunderstandings of our political age
“In tough economic times, some people will ask whether we should retreat from our climate change objectives. In our view, it would be quite wrong to row back, and those who say we should misunderstand the relationship between the economic and environmental tasks we face.” — Ed Miliband, U.K. energy and climate change secretary
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World needs to get crackin’ on CCS, says IEA
John McCain and Barack Obama both like to give lovin’ to “clean coal” — but how much would they be willing to pony up for it? In a new report, the International Energy Agency, assuming that we continue to head into a fossil-fuel-powered future, says that the world needs to invest some $20 billion in […]
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Coal’s position in the energy market is more precarious than is generally acknowledged
As we reported Monday morning, the Bush administration is on the verge of issuing a rule that will make it even easier for mountaintop-removal mining companies to dump toxic crap in the streams of Appalachia. (They do it now, it’s just illegal, albeit never enforced.) You can read Jeff Biggers for more on why this […]
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CCX sells rip-offsets
Richard Sandor and his Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) may be doing more to destroy the credibility of the carbon trading market than anyone in the world, as the Wall Street Journal makes painfully clear. I urge anyone considering throwing their money away on rip-offsets to read the entire piece, “Pollution Credits Let Dumps Double Dip: […]
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New Scientist on how our economy is killing the earth
The graph above comes from the introduction to the New Scientist‘s special report: "How our economy is killing the Earth." It takes the following as its central premise: A growing band of experts are looking at figures like these and arguing that personal carbon virtue and collective environmentalism are futile as long as our economic […]
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Fermi who?
Last week, Jeff Young of Living on Earth spoke to one of the top dogs at the Nuclear Energy Institute, Alex Flint. Read the following exchange and see if it fills you with confidence: FLINT: No, the Fermi plant operates very safely. YOUNG: That’s Alex Flint, the Nuclear Institute’s senior vice president for government affairs. […]
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New report offers five different pictures of life in 2030
Forum on the Future recently released a report, "derived from published studies and consultations with more than 60 climate-change specialists," that describes five possible scenarios for how climate change might affect our collective future. Here’s the happy one, as described by AFP: ENERGY EFFICIENCY: A swift, peaceful transition to a consumerist economy where heat-trapping carbon […]
