Climate Change

California's Shale Fail: The Case of 13 Billion Barrels of Missing Oil By Richard Heinberg In 2011, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US Department of Energy commissioned INTEK Inc., a Virginia-based consulting firm, to estimate how much oil might be recoverable from California’s vast Monterey Shale formation. Production of tight oil was soaring […]

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Nat’l Gas actually worse than Coal for Climate Change because, Methane: Cornell Scientist

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By Bobby Magill Follow @bobbymagill A Cornell University scientist’s claims that oil and gas development is so harmful to the climate that methane emissions and oil and gas production in general need to be cut back immediately to avoid a “global catastrophe…

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Onshore Wind Power in Europe now Cheaper than Gas, Coal or Nuclear

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Originally published on Renew Economy. The falling cost of renewables is not news to those who have paid attention to analysis from green-focused think tanks, or groups like Bloomberg New Energy Finance. But it is when a major European utility, with…

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Shouldn’t the “1% Doctrine” Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?

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(By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com) Who could forget? At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of “information” from top figures in the Bush administration about the secret Iraqi program to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and so endanger the United States. And who — other than a few suckers — […]

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NASA’s Launch Pads menaced by Sea Level Rise it is Charged to Monitor

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Sea level rise forces US space agency to retreat (via AFP) Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA’s launch pads and multi-billion dollar complexes famous for training astronauts and launching historic missions to space, scientists said Tuesday. From Cape Canaveral in Florida to mission control in… —– Related video: WBPT2: “South Florida’s […]

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India-Pakistan Solar Energy Race? Desert Solar Park among world’s Largest

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Pakistan’s first large-scale solar power project, the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park project, was recently inaugurated by Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, representing one of the country’s first clear steps towards renewable energy. The project…

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Miles O’Brien slam CNN as the ‘Wal-Mart of journalism’

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On the latest episode of his StarTalk Radio Show, Neil DeGrasse Tyson spoke to former CNN science journalist Miles O’Brien about the failures of modern news reporting — particularly at CNN. As the interview began, O’Brien joked that CNN fired…

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Congressional Gridlock on Climate Change hurts US Int’l Leadership on Issue

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(David Victor via The Stanley Foundation) As the world heads toward a new round of climate talks in 2015, the moment is ripe for concerted, collective action to surmount years of international procrastination. In an interview with the Stanley Foundation, David Victor—the author of the book Global Warming Gridlock about why there hasn't been much […]

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8 False Climate-Change-Denial Memes Debunked by Real Scientists

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Most people who deny that human activity is warming the planet just dismiss a massive body of scientific evidence as a big hoax. But there’s a more sophisticated set of climate “skeptics” who make arguments that, at least to the lay ear, sound…