by L J Furman, MBA on December 29, 2009
in Carbon, Climate Change, Coal, Connecting the Dots, conspicuity, Ecological Economics, Energy, NASA, Outside the Box, USA
I’m beginning to think that Copenhagen was what it had to be, what it could only be. It fulfilled its Buddha-nature. Thus, I don’t consider it a failure. Nor do I consider it a success. It was what it was, what it could have been, what it had to be: A gathering of emissaries from [...]
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The New York Timesgets it right, but has trouble with math.The Times’ editorial, “R.I.P. to the S.U.V.“, June 17, has the basics, but their numbers are wrong. Small cars like the Honda Civic emit about one quarter of the greenhouse gases per mile compared to trucks like the Ford F 150 and GM Hummer. GM [...]
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Hummers: Illogical, Un-Economical, and Bad for The Environment. But They Sure Are Big!Spencer Reiss, writing inWired Magazine says “Nuclear Power is The Most Climate Friendly Insdustrial Scale Form of Energy “. Forgetting for a moment that nuclear power requires fuel, waste management, national security infrastructure, massive government subsidies, including artificial limits to liability, nuclear releases [...]
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