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An oil exec gets the diagnosis right
One hesitates to agree with the CEO of a major oil company, but … I can’t really figure where Jeroen van der Veer, head of Royal Dutch Shell, is wrong in all this. He says: Energy demand is growing, and is likely to double by 2050. Oil and gas are going to become more difficult […]
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A guest column from K.C. Golden
This is a guest column from KC Golden, Policy Director for Climate Solutions, a Northwest-based nonprofit focused on tackling global warming (though not yet tackling its own website’s frames-based layout, which was awful in 1998 and still is … but I digress). It originally ran in Methow Valley News. —– These are the early days […]
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Coal exec whines about regulations on his ability to destroy the earth and his workers
This is not helping me keep my blood pressure down. Poor, poor coal executive feels persecuted: A senior coal company executive on Wednesday lambasted U.S. lawmakers for proposing caps on emissions blamed for global warming, saying the Democrats were out to destroy America’s coal industry. Robert Murray, chairman, president and chief executive of Murray Energy […]
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California is no longer leading the pack on wind energy
Last year, California suffered the ultimate indignity in its quest to be the “greenest state.” It was passed by red Texas — the oil heartland — for the title of state with the most wind-power generating capacity. The numbers get even more depressing. Last year, California’s wind capacity grew at a slower rate than any […]
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Tom DeLay crawls out from under his rock
Soon-to-be-felon Tom DeLay writes the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on climate change. Sir Oolius takes one for the team and smacks it about. It’s hard to believe someone as dumb as a box of rocks was running the House for so many years. Or I guess maybe it ought to be hard to believe.
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Feel guilty yet?
Ever wondered if your state's climate policy really makes a difference in the big global scheme of things? If so, here's a little map I made.
For each state, the map shows a nation with equivalent greenhouse-gas emissions from energy.
The full U.S. version is here.
When I've shown drafts to people, almost everyone wants to compare populations. The western states population comparison is after the jump. The full data are here(xls).
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It Was Sunny in Seattle
Global weather is bad and likely to get worse Within the last week, excessive heat — think 113 degrees Fahrenheit — has killed dozens of people in Greece, Romania, and Turkey. Storms killed some 150 people in India and about 220 people in Pakistan. Britain has been deluged by flooding. We like to think of […]
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Kristof speaks
Nicholas Kristof, one of the few genuine moral authorities in the pundit class today, points out a brutal truth: If we need any more proof that life is unfair, it is that subsistence villagers here in Africa will pay with their lives for our refusal to curb greenhouse gas emissions. When we think of climate […]
