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Friday 19 September 2014

Climate change and energy info from Oilprice.com

The website Oilprice.com "is the most popular energy news site in the world. Our analysis focuses on Oil and Gas, Alternative Energy and Geopolitics."
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It also carries some prescient and cool-headed articles on climate change:

The Environment / Global Warming

  • Watch John Oliver's Spot-On Takedown Of Climate Change Debate

    Some 97 out of 100 actively publishing climate scientists agree with the overwhelming evidence that humans are causing global warming.The challenge for the media is how to accurately reflect that consensus. One way NOT to do it is to give equal time to climate science deniers. Unsurprisingly (yet tragically), that is the preferred strategy of most of the MSM. False balance lives at CNN, Reuters, Bloomberg, and even PBS.Only one cable news show has been brave enough to take on false balance with a “statistically representative climate change debate.” Unfortunately, it’s a fake news show, John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight,”…
  • Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice?

    I grew up planning for my future, wondering which college I would attend, what to study, and later on, where to work, which articles to write, what my next book might be, how to pay a mortgage, and which mountaineering trip I might like to take next.Now, I wonder about the future of our planet. During a recent visit with my eight-year-old niece and 10- and 12-year-old nephews, I stopped myself from asking them what they wanted to do when they grew up, or any of the future-oriented questions I used to ask myself. I did so because the reality…
  • Is China an Environmental Steward, Demon or Magician?

    China’s growing role as the world’s largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions is undisputed. China is the epicenter of building out environmental markets as it struggles to balance the need for economic growth and climate protection.  But is China’s leadership sincere and capable to stem the tide of environmental doom? On the world stage, China's Reaction to the New IPCC Climate Change Report is loud but feeble. Their “710-page Second National Assessment Report on Climate Change, warns that China itself faces extremely grim ecological and environmental consequences from global warming. Even at the recent Conference of Parties (COP), China announced…
  • Harvard Study Challenges EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Figures

    A new study by Harvard University researchers on greenhouse gas emissions in the US claims that the level of methane leaks into the atmosphere may be 50% higher than suggested by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).The study claims that methane emissions from human activities such as natural gas production or livestock raising were twice as high, or higher, than EPA estimates, while in some south-central regions, emissions from fossil fuel extraction and refining may be up to five times higher than estimated. Related article: How to Stop the Inexorable Progress of Climate Change"Our numbers for the entire US are about…
  • How to Stop the Inexorable Progress of Climate Change

    Apocalyptic climate change is upon us.  For shorthand, let’s call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style flood.Slow-motion, however, is not no-motion. In fits and starts, speeding up and slowing down, turning risks into clumps of extreme fact, one catastrophe after another -- even if there can be no 100% certitude about the origin of each one -- the planetary future careens toward the unliveable. That future is, it seems, arriving ahead of schedule, though erratically enough that most people -- in the lucky, prosperous countries at…

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