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Deniergate! Ohh the irony, Willie Soon!

The New York Times published a very interesting article on Saturday…  Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher By JUSTIN GILLIS and JOHN SCHWARTZ The NY Times article describes evidence uncovered by Greenpeace and the Climate Investigations Center, that Dr Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, a prominent climate change denying researcher, failed to disclose that much of his work is funded by corporate interests. Apparently, Willie Soon is almost entirely funded by various coal and oil interests, including the Koch Brothers.  This is richly ironic considering the phony “climategate” scandal, likely orchestrated by the same coal and oil interests, to discredit climate scientists.  On second thought, maybe… Read More »Deniergate! Ohh the irony, Willie Soon!

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Carbon Budgets Explored

As you may recall from a recent post about fossil fuel divestment, fossil fuels will soon become a stranded asset, meaning we can not afford to pull it out of the ground and burn it. The concept of carbon budgets was explored in depth in a report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Grantham Research Institute, called “Unburnable Carbon 2013:  Wasted capital and stranded assets,” which we went over in detail in a earlier post. As discussed before, a carbon budget is not hard to figure out, because the relationship between how much carbon is burned and the increase in temperature is relatively well know. ( Data from Carbon… Read More »Carbon Budgets Explored

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What would Reagan do??

Not that long ago, Republicans and Democrats agreed that climate change was an import issue.  My, how times have changed.  Nowadays Republican politicians and pundits are loath to even speak the words.  Why the big shift? Maybe big oil campaign donors told them to sing a new tune.  Or maybe shadowy billionaires, feeling a threat to their oligarchical rule, are financing the denialist propaganda. By whatever means, it seems like every conservative think tank puts out an endless stream of climate change denying propaganda, that gets amplified by Fox News, and then parroted by every right leaning person in the country; ultimately to… Read More »What would Reagan do??

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Why Divest from Fossil Fuels

Well here we are again, talking about oil.  Oil, and other fossil fuels are the root of our problem; we can’t live with them, we can’t live without them.  At least not yet. But our romance with oil hasn’t been all bad.  No other source of fuel, save nuclear power, provides us with more energy by volume or weight.  Oil has made many people and countries fabulously wealthy, and lifted millions and millions of people out of poverty in the past hundred years or so. Oil powers every aspect of modern society, from the fertilizer and machinery on the farm, to… Read More »Why Divest from Fossil Fuels

Peak Oil Predictions

Peak Oil Predictions – Only 50 Years Left!?

Welcome to part 2… As you will recall, part 1 was a resurrected blog post from 2010.  Back in 2010, it looked like there was only 50 years of oil left for the entire world to use.  That was before the recent “boom” in U.S. oil production from the fracking of oil-containing shale rock.  How has this boom changed peak oil predictions?  Keep on reading to find out. Some important questions we came up with last time… What the heck is “fracking” anyhow? What does the increase in U.S. production mean for the future of oil? How does Saudi Arabia… Read More »Peak Oil Predictions – Only 50 Years Left!?