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POPS How to spell Obama energy policy: 'D-E-L-A-Y'
• Within a month of taking office, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar delayed the offshore leasing process by extending the public comment period for an additional six months. • Just days before he delayed the leasing process, Salazar also voided several existing onshore drilling leases in Utah delaying the development of American energy. • Last September Salazar announced that he could delay offshore drilling until 2012, or longer, depending on Interior’s own internal analysis, which is at his discretion. • Days after the end of the public comment period, Interior promised that it would take “several weeks” to review and analyze the 530,000 comments received. That analysis was delayed, as there has been no public announcement from Interior. • Earlier this year Salazar announced a new layer of bureaucratic regulations for energy companies, which will further delay any kind of responsible energy development. • Last month Salazar announced that offshore drilling ....
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POPSHurricane Katrina Victims to Sue Oil Companies “The plaintiffs allege that defendants’ operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming,” say the documents, seen by AFP. The increase in global surface air and water temperatures “in turn caused a rise in sea levels and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, which combined to destroy the plaintiffs’ private property, as well as public property useful to them”. Maybe their debit cards ran out?
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POPSoil companies caused KATRINA! okay this is just STUPID and they're praying to settle out of court and get a shut-up payoff from the oil companies. and none of these idiot drive CO2 and CO emitting cars?
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POPSMajor Alternative Energy Breakthrough
About ten days ago I read about this from another clipper -- one of the cool things I like about Clipmarks is such insights or info from others. I clip it here because I thought this was a nice, simple explanation. The "revolutionary," idea is not just the high tech new materials and science but the elimination of The Grid: instead of buying power from a company, you buy this mini-power plant for your home or business. USA made. Came out of research on sending man to Mars and having a colony on that planet. This IS the best road for us to travel, rather than a path of destruction fighting over limited fossil fuels. If we put the time, energy, cash and focus into programs like this instead, most of the Real Reasons for wars will be eliminated. Our politics and media, at this time, play up war like it's a supercool thing; but not really. Any jerk can pull a trigger, shot a ten-cent bullet, and destroy a life. It takes a lot more true and better humanity to raise a c
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POPSCold Weather Stalls Windpower in Minnesota Another example of what happens when the ALL KNOWING Government decides they have a better idea. All 20 of the newly installed wind-turbines which were supposed to help reduce fossil fuel energy production has failed to produce any electricity. Sounds like the government full of hot air and accomplishing absolutely nothing but wasting taxpayer money. So this weeks DODO bird award goes to the officials of Minnesota who actually thought up this lame brain idea. This one certainly has flown over the Cuckoo's nest.
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POPSChina or the U.S.: which will be the last nation standing? Here is another usually sober commentator who seems rattled. He concludes: "Pay attention to the weather reports from Washington and Beijing, but meanwhile build local resilience wherever you are. If the roof needs mending, don't dawdle. Just because the sky is falling, that doesn't mean it's time to stop thinking."
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POPSLaws of Sustainbility (2) Bartlett does not say what to do, exactly. But he strongly implies that the first thing to do is stop having children and the second is to cut consumption sharply.
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POPSIf climate change doesn’t grab you, meet its evil twin This catastrophe is in addition to over fishing, trawling seabeds, massive "soups" of poisonous plastic particles thousands of miles wide, not to mention all the other pollution that ends up in the sea. Mankind's abuse of its life supporting environment is almost to enormous to comprehend. What is happening in the sea is clear for all to see, even if the climate science is slightly foggy at the moment.
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POPS NASA-Gate Hansen has said in the past that "heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature." What penalties would he recommend for himself and his CRU colleagues? We recall the unguarded admission of climate alarmist Steven Schneider of Stanford, printed in Discover in 1989: "To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." The warm-mongers at CRU and NASA may be neither. Let's open their books to find how well they may have been cooked. Investors.com http://bit.ly/7IK1wb
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POPSAl Gore Demands "Pets Must Go" in New World Global Warming Order!
Whiplash used the example of a 'typical' pet, a 7 year old Golden Retriever weighing 76 pounds. The dog was fed 2 1'2 cups of low residue premium dog food per day', 1/2 cup in the morning and 2 cups in the early evening. The stool samples were measured, analyzed and catalogued. Independent lab findings easily disclaimed Gore's findings, indicating that a well cared for pet, on average, emitted the same amount of Carbon as a Toyota Prius driven 1200 miles per year. Continuing the rebuttal, aided by Beck manning a large blackboard and documenting Whiplash's findings, the following facts emerged after a detailed analysis of stool samples gathered surreptitiously as part of the scientific fact finding mission: * Al Gore: Weight 379 Pounds. Discounting for Bloat, emits enough noxious gas to move Queen Mary 2 97 nautical miles, using the figure that it takes one gallon of fossil fuel to move the liner 6 inches. * Christie Alley: Weight 427 1/2 pounds. Enough carbon emission
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POPSExposed: How Businesses Are Undermining Efforts on U.S. Climate Committments
Opponents say the approach is tantamount to a fuel tax that would burden families, cost jobs, and weaken an already sagging economy. Three government analyses, including one by the Congressional Budget Office, projected that because of its generous flexibilities for business the legislation under consideration would cost households $80 to $175 per year. But opponents continued to wave their own estimates that the legislation would add thousands of dollars a year to home electricity, gas, and oil bills. And although none of the opposition TV ads or public statements challenge the idea that fossil fuel emissions are causing dangerous climate change that the world must address, there have been other efforts to sow doubt. The boldest of these was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's request that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hold a "trial" on global warming science -- a move its spokesman told the Los Angeles Times could be "the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century." Divisions Wit
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POPS Who says it's green to burn woodchips? Almuth Ernsting from Biofuelwatch said: "It's almost unbelievable that we're creating vast areas of monoculture, mile after mile, just to be cut down as fast as they grow, to be shipped thousands of miles to be burned just for people's electricity. It just doesn't make sense. What about all the habitat that gets destroyed along the way?" Arrrghhh!!!! Please pass on ... retweet ... whatever. Somewhere I line must be drawn. See how woodlands can support multiple livings, and how complex they really are... www.worldwidewood.wordpress.com.
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POPS The Mysterious Origin and Supply of Oil processes for making petroleum likely require thousands of years. Even if Earth does contain far more oil than currently thought, it's inevitable that reserves will one day run out. Scientists disagree sharply, however, on when that will occur. And, some say, a global crisis could begin as soon as increasing demand is greater than supply, a possibility that might be measured in years rather than decades, some analysts argue.
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POPSA win-win policy Fuel subsidies cost hundred of billions to poor nations an decnourage waste of fossil fuels, while not helping the poor. They are yet another big- government failure.
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POPSOrganic Waste Ethanol Cellulosic ethanol is an exciting technology which promises to convert the abundant sources of organic waste worldwide (kitchen waste, yard waste, paper industry waste, etc.) into green alternative fuel. Unlike traditional ethanol, it won't use food crops or raise food prices. In addition, environmental impact studies have indicated that while traditional ethanol releases more greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuels, cellulosic ethanol could reduce emissions
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