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Osborne Dines Former Chancellors, See the Menu They Fought to Keep Secret for Half a Decade
Osborne Dines Former Chancellors, See the Menu They Fought to Keep Secret for Half a Decade Just before Christmas, back in December 2010, the chancellor George Osborne (pictured) sat down to a sumptuous lunch with his successors, including Lord Lawson of the climate denial charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation. At the time, Lawson was […]
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution The energy market in Germany saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its electricity supply—leaving lignite, coal and nuclear behind. But researchers calculate that, allowing for the mild winter of 2014, the cut in fossil fuel use in energy production meant CO2 […]
We Must Start Digging Our Way Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma
We Must Start Digging Our Way Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma It sometimes seems people in the mining and fossil fuel industries — along with their government promoters — don’t believe in the future. What else could explain the mad rush to extract and use up the Earth’s resources as quickly and wastefully as possible? […]
‘Failure of Conscience’: Groups Urge Congress to Fund Social Well-Being, Not Fossil Fuel Industry
‘Failure of Conscience’: Groups Urge Congress to Fund Social Well-Being, Not Fossil Fuel Industry Diverse coalition launches calculator to measure cost of fossil fuel subsidies A coalition of environmental and social justice groups has come together to declare collective disgust with the spending of billions of taxpayer dollars on unnecessary subsidies for the oil and […]
Subsidy Spotlight: Publicly Funding a Utah Disaster in the Making
Subsidy Spotlight: Publicly Funding a Utah Disaster in the Making A green stegosaurus graces the logo of Uintah County, Utah, a gateway to the famed Dinosaur National Monument, where breathtaking landscapes and fossils preserved in sandstone attract thousands of visitors every year. That logo has taken on new meaning over the past decade as prehistoric remains […]
George Shultz, Reagan’s Secretary Of State, On Climate Change: “The Potential Results Are Catastrophic” | DeSmogBlog
George Shultz, Reagan’s Secretary Of State, On Climate Change: “The Potential Results Are Catastrophic” | DeSmogBlog. George Shultz, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989, is not only willing to buck the Republican Party’s orthodoxy on global warming by acknowledging climate science, he’s outright calling for action. And he’s even willing […]
Peak Oil: A New Paradigm Suggested Pt 1 – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: A New Paradigm Suggested Pt 1 – Peak Oil Matters. ‘[P]eak oil’ is a global issue resulting from dependency on finite oil resources and associated vulnerability to changes in supply. The global economy must engage in changes and these changes must start with our misperceptions of prosperity as synonymous with capital. If we […]
