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Fight Over Global Warming Heats Up - WSJ.com
Source: Wall Street Journal

Two years ago, a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after concluding that global warming is "unequivocal" and is "very likely" caused by man. Then came a development unforeseen by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC: Data suggeste …

The Organic Revolution: How We Can Stop Global Warming
Source: Common Dreams

Beyond the gloom and doom of the climate crisis, there lies a powerful and regenerative grassroots solution: organic food, farming, and ranching.

Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find
Source: Science Daily

Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to prove that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated.

Pioneering research succeeds in producing industrially vital chemical through engineered bacteria
Source: EurekAlert!

A team of South Korean scientists have succeeded in engineering the bacterium E. coli to produce the industrial chemical putrescine.

Volt will Get 230 Miles Per Gallon in City Says GM
Source: The New York Times

General Motors Corp. said Tuesday its Chevrolet Volt rechargeable electric car should get 230 miles per gallon of gasoline in city driving, more than four times the mileage of the current champion, the Toyota Prius. More Articles

Will Health Care Reform Slip on Oil?
Source: miller-mccune.com

A new wrinkle in the health care debate: how can we keep costs down when the medical industry is so dependent upon fossil fuels, the price of which keeps going up?

Harming the environment is bad for the economy
Source: CANOE -- CNEWS

At its most absurd, the argument is that we simply can't afford to protect the environment – that the costs will be so high as to ruin the economy.

The Shady Agendas Behind 5 Popular Conspiracy Theories
Source: CRACKED.com

Do you ever wonder why some conspiracy theories, no matter how retarded they sound, seem to never die? Where do these things come from, anyway?

Test Well 8,350 Feet Deep Being Drilled in Western Kentucky to Hopefully Bury CO2
Source: Kentucky.com: Homepage

A test well is being drilled "8,350 feet" deep in western Kentucky in hopes of burying carbon dioxide to enable coal to be a cleaner energy source. This is one of several test wells being drilled in Kentucky and around the country.

Coal Supply May Be Vastly Overestimated
Source: Discovery.com

Forget peak oil -- a series of new estimates of the world's coal supply suggests reserves may be vastly overestimated, and if the planet isn't running on a majority of alternative energies within the next few decades, we could be facing an unprecedented global energy crisis.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Two-Degree Rise Ever More Likely, Scientists Warn
Source: IPS

Climate scientists are calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels because humans are now pumping so much carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere that the '2-degree-C climate balloon' will burst otherwise, new studies show.

Robert J. Samuelson - Selling the Green Economy - washingtonpost.com
Source: The Washington Post

The selling of the green economy involves much economic make-believe. Environmentalists not only maximize the dangers of global warming -- from rising sea levels to advancing tropical diseases -- they also minimize the costs of dealing with it.

Congress, Interest Groups Gear Up for Highway Bill
Source: The New York Times

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar completely missed a news conference on innovative transit programs Thursday because his car was stuck in traffic, behind an accident in a congested commuter tunnel. More Articles

Bound to Burn. by Peter W. Huber. City Journal Spring 2009.
Source: City Journal

Like medieval priests, today's carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives your carbon sins. It will run you about $500 for 5 tons of forgiveness—about how much the typical American needs every year. Or about $2,000 a year for a typical four-person household.

Alternative Fuel Folly
Source: Wall Street Journal

This is the tale of how a supposedly innocuous federal subsidy to encourage "alternative energy" has, in a few short years, ballooned into a huge taxpayer liability and a potential trade dispute, even as it has distorted markets and led to greater fossil-fuel use.

Oil chief warns US green policy will kill economy
Source: FT.com

I listen to our current president speak as if he were an economic expert on the effects of taxing and promoting "green" technology. Here is an article by a proven expert in business.

DOE on Fossil Energy and Clean Coal

Much in the debate on energy, thousands of different opinions and viewpoints have been thrown around. Topics often include Global Warming, Energy Sources, Emissions, Economy, and even National Security.

Appalachia's Agony
Source: The New York Times

The longstanding disgrace of mountaintop mining is now squarely in President Obama's hands. More Articles

Team Battles Arctic Winter, Hiking 600+ Miles to Measure Melting Ice Cap
Source: CNN

It could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice cap. More Articles

Solar Power For $2 A Day - Forbes.com
Source: Forbes

Imagine a solar panel as affordable as a fancy new bicycle. A panel designed so simply that you can install one (or more) yourself, just outside your windows, in the course of an afternoon...

Energy Policy---More Of The Same

President Obama's energy policies reflect his capitulation to the standard of "commercial viability".

Former astronaut speaks out on global warming
Source: The Boston Herald

Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon and once served New Mexico in the U.S. Senate, doesn't believe that humans are causing global warming.

Promoters overstated the environmental benefit of wind farms
Source: Telegraph

The wind farm industry has been forced to admit that the environmental benefit of wind power in reducing carbon emissions is only half as big as it had previously claimed.

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