Trent Lott Calls for a Higher Gas Tax (Video)
published August 5, 2011 and has No Comments
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Read more...The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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It’s Tax Day. But Not for Exxon, Which Pays $0 in Federal Taxes
published April 18, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: US House Committee on Natural Resources Here on the East Coast, it's evening time, and many of you out there are scrambling to e-file your taxes before the deadline hits in a few hours. And as you wonder if there's any way you can get that refund number to look a bit bigger on TurboTax, keep this in ...
Read more...New Federal Budget Cuts EPA 16%, Removes Wolves from Endangered Species List
published April 12, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Abeeeer via Flickr / CC BY Late last Friday, with just an hour and a half or so left on the clock, Democrats and the GOP struck a budget compromise that prevented a shutdown of the federal government. The 'debate', if you want to call it that -- though I suppose it was more civil than, say, ...
Read more...Koch-Funded Climate Skeptic’s Own Data Confirms Warming
published April 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Graph via Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature This week, a climate hearing was held in the US House of Reps. Six 'experts' on climate were brought in, but only three were scientists. And it turns out that one of the GOP's star witnesses -- a scientist who's been vocal in his skepticism of global temperature records, the physicist Richard Muller, ...
Read more...FWD to Your Republican Congressman: Global Warming 101
published March 16, 2011 and has No Comments
Please forward this post to your Republican Congressman I was just thinking a bit about the GOP's unanimous vote in the House Energy Committee to deny the existence of climate change , and it occurred to me that there's probably a good explanation for it: Nobody's ever taken the time to explain to you guys what climate change really ...
Read more...Do the Powers that Be Really Want to Deny Another Galileo?
published February 15, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Galileo Project , Wikimedia, CC There's really no rational way a human can dispute the fact that the vast majority of the world's scientists believe that greenhouse gas emissions generated by man are warming the climate. It's one of the most important findings of modern science, and it's supported by an impressively massive body of evidence. But, as ...
Read more...Enforcing Clean Air Act Rules Will Create 1.5 Million Jobs, Study Says
published February 9, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: akeg , Flickr, CC Who wants clean air? How about 1.5 million jobs? I know someone who does ... America! Well, this fine nation of ours is in luck. According to a new study, enforcing the new Clean Air Act requirements would create a jobs boom in professions like plumbing, construction, engineering, and pipefitting. Which is interesting new, ...
Read more...Peak Oil in 2012? Saudi Arabia’s Oil Overestimated by 40%, Wikileaks Reveals
published February 9, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Bakar_88 , Flickr, CC Looks like peak oil might be even closer than we thought -- the most recent Wikileaks cable released by the Guardian has revealed that US diplomats are convinced that Saudi Arabia has overestimated its vaunted oil reserves by a stunning 40%. Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil supplier, and is widely believed to ...
Read more...Bush’s EPA Told Him CO2 Should be Regulated, Was Overruled by Cheney
published February 9, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Wikimedia Commons , Cherie A. Thurlby, CC And I thought I'd never have to write another post about Bush again. Alas, here's yet another revelation perfectly befitting the post-office portrait emerging of our last president -- a man with perhaps the best intentions, but easily influenced by the men around him. It turns out that Steven Johnson, the ...
Read more...Learn Natural Top-Bar Hive Beekeeping Online
published February 9, 2011 and has No Comments
Image credit: NatalieMaynor , used under Creative Commons license. Whether we are talking about Colony Collapse Disorder , keeping native bees , solar-powered bee hives or Bar... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Learn Natural Top-Bar Hive Beekeeping Online
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Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem 2012-02-08
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
More in this category ...Google Tops Greenpeace’s Clean IT List
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
