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Daily Archives: January 17, 2012
Event Horizon For Low Carbon Energy, The End Of Fossil Fuels?
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Posted in Coal, Fracking, Oil and gas
Growing Doubts in Europe On Future of Carbon Storage
Hey, maybe they are in the real world after all. CCS is a really dumb strategy Continue reading
Posted in Carbon capture & sequestration
Pssst: It’s Still About a Buck a Gallon
Gas prices today, in real terms, are about the same as they were in 1980. You may be paying more in terms of the number of dollars, but you’re really paying the same in terms of the value of your money Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
America’s hidden 60 million barrel a day industry
Misleading Reuters headline, about half is a resource used for enhanced oil and gas recovery with most of the rest pumped into disposal formations – only about 0.6% goes to onshore containment ponds for treatment Continue reading
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Posted in Fracking, Oil and gas
Bulgaria government cancels Chevron shale gas permit
Heavily in debt and almost totally dependent on Russian gas supplies via the Ukraine, Bulgaria yields to anti fracking hysteria Continue reading
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Posted in Development, Fracking, Oil and gas
NPR worries people actually want development
You know Spain’s unemployment rate is bad when villagers cheer the arrival of a nuclear waste facility in their backyard — because of the jobs it will bring Continue reading
Posted in Development, Nuclear power
Forget what you hear, people really want useless wind farms increasing the cost of electricity
Or at least, so the now eco-flake-dominated CSIRO would have you believe Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Mann expects to be attacked ‘forever’
Michael Mann spoke at EnviroDay at the University of Virginia about — “one-sided skepticism”? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
UK has more charging points than electric cars
Sales of electric cars have slumped so badly that there are now more charging points than vehicles on the road. Continue reading
Posted in Electric vehicles
Environmentalist Wants Eco-Gulags For Climate Change Deniers
Maybe Katharine Hayhoe could lead Eco-Gulag Bible study group. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Hayhoe: ‘Climate scientists are like Boy Scouts trying to fight the Marines’
Katharine Hayhoe continues her whine country tour; this time with the Grist writer who suggested Nuremberg-style trials for skeptics. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Politico tries spooking GOP on climate
Politico reporter Darren Samuelsohn (for the second time today) tries scaring Republicans with the green card. Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012
UN chief calls for more clean energy to reduce poverty
Earth to Ban Ki-moon. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Nanny Failure: No significant change in U.S. obesity
From hectoring/fearmongering to smaller portions to calorie disclosure to low fat/no fat/reduced sugar — food nannying has failed. Continue reading
Posted in Food nannies
Study: ‘Junk food’ in school not correlated with student weight gain
“Schools only represent a small portion of children’s food environment.” Continue reading
Posted in Beverages, Food nannies
Obama jobs council: What global warming?
The President’s Council on Competitiveness has issued it’s 2011 report — it’s pro-coal and no mention of “global warming,” “climate change” or “greenhouse gases.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coal
Regulators say hydraulic fracturing may have caused oil spill on Canadian farm
So clean it up, figure out what happened and let’s get fracking. Continue reading
Posted in Fracking
Italian Ship Wreck: ‘This is an ecological time bomb’
Or is it just an accident that can be cleaned up? Continue reading
Posted in Water pollutiuon
Report: Warmer summers may be causing colder winters
So what are the perfect temperatures for summer and winter? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Report: Tourism a victim, source of global warming
Maybe the industry can come up with stay-at-home (i.e., stay-cation) packages. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Green hell
