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'Energy Transition' Archive
Consumers are Fully Responsible for High Oil Prices
Oil Prices Finally some straight talk from the MSM (USA Today) about the true source and nature of our energy woes. So ...
Green Consumer Product Site Launched
A new eco-conscious/Fair Trade oriented consumer info site has just been launched-called Green Scene USA. It currently represents 12 U.S. cities, (including Santa ...
RMI Car of the Future on NOVA
I received this email from the Rocky Mountain Institute today for Earth Day. Since oil dependency finances corrupt theocracies and is at the root of both global warming and ...
Town Considers Forcing 100-Gallon-Per-Person Water Limit
OAKLAND, Fla. -- A small town in Central Florida is considering forcing a 100-gallon-per-person daily limit on water for its residents. ...
Pay No Attention to the Price of Oil…
...or to the man behind the curtain. Or the energy monster under our bed. Today, OPEC president Chakib Khelil warned that oil prices would stay ...
Saudis Preparing For When the Oil Runs Out
Saudi Arabia plans to establish a sovereign wealth fund that is expected to dwarf Abu Dhabi’s $900bn and become the largest in the world.
The new fund will be a formidable ...
40-Year-Old Solar House Heats and Cools Without Electricity
Forty years ago, Hay invented a simple, inexpensive way to heat and cool a home using the sun's rays, but without the panels and wiring that come with conventional solar ...
Gore’s Mansion Goes Green
Bush vs. Gore:
The Denialist-in-Chief wasted eight years. Meanwhile, Al Gore did something. Now he's done even more:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Al Gore, who was criticized for high ...
How Much Greenhouse Gases Do California’s Swine Produce?
A question we often find ourselves asking is just how much raising swine in the great state of California contributes to global warming. Now, with help from the data released ...
Flipping Your Light Switch May Demolish Mountains
A new Web-based tool allows U.S. residents to learn how their local electricity consumption may be linked to the destruction of landscapes in the Appalachia region of the eastern United ...
Georgia Governor Refuses to Accept Drought Responsibility
ATLANTA - As Georgia descends deeper into drought, Gov. Sonny Perdue has ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle and asked President Bush for help. On Tuesday, the governor will ...
Climate is too complex for accurate predictions
Climate change models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise prediction of how greenhouse gases will warm the Earth, according to a new study. The ...
White House Eviscerates CDC Climate Testimony
WASHINGTON - The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, ...
Drought, Peak Oil, and Climate Change: the Future is Now
Climate change denialists are crackpots of the worst kind. In this article, I will demonstrate how they are also dangerous. Whether or not they are also ...
Al-Kafir Akbar: A Denialist Digs Himself In Deeper
It's on. As a staunch defender of the mainstream scientific consensus on AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming), which has recently been reaffirmed by the decisions of the ...
Kansas Rejects Coal Plant: Takes Lead on Warming
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit ...
Climate-Change Denial: Aren’t We Past That?
New Planet Atheism blogger Tom Stelene (Al-Kafir Akbar!) seemed promising, but he moved quickly from some initial rational posts into full-bore "wingnut" climate-change ...
Nobel Warms to Gore’s Global Campaign
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness ...
“Biofilm” Alert
For years we've been hearing about increases in "antibiotic-resistant bacteria." This was a troubling enough development. Not being a microbiologist, I assumed that the problem was ...
Greenland Ice Melt Triggers Earthquakes
The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off. Scientists monitoring events ...
Climate Skeptics: Reality Has Just Caught Up With You
Arctic ice loss is "stunning" — total loss possible by 2030, scientists warn
The maiden over at Hells Handmaiden has been running a series recently ...
Edwards: Americans Should Give Up Their SUVs!
Edwards: Americans Should Give Up Their SUVs!
Taking a stand for common sense and the environment, John Edwards has bravely asked Americans to prepare themselves for driving more fuel efficient ...
Do Not Buy Into The Global Warming Scam, Christians!
The democrats are ever as much corrupt as the republicans. Don’t be fooled just because they oppose Bush. It is true that they are as bad or even ...
In Coal Blood
This is the great paradox today: In an age of global warming and greater energy and safety awareness, we are also witnessing the great coal revival. Nearly 50 percent of ...
Think Outside the Bottle
Think Outside the Bottle
A new activist organization to raise awareness of worldwide water issues. From their front page:
The United Nations warns us that by 2025, two-thirds of the world’s ...