[H]undreds of years of fossil fuels still remain to be tapped. Just as significantly, much of it is in own ‘backyards’ – and away from the control of dictatorial regimes who use current reserves as geopolitical leverage.
Archive for Category: "Global Warming & Environment"
Energy crises are the result of ‘above the ground geopolitics’ not a lack of global resources
Japan: Nuclear crisis raised to Chernobyl level
Japanese authorities have raised the severity rating of their nuclear crisis to the highest level, seven. Level seven previously only applied to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, where 10 times as much radiation was emitted.
California Assembly Outlaws Economics 101
To environmental dreamers, state-level economic suicide will serve as a trial run for national suicide. Self-inflicted misery in the name of the advancement of “clean energy” is a small price to pay for the warm and fuzzy feeling that consumers will get as the Kool-Aid goes down, the lights go out, and prosperity decays in the name of something wonderful, something green.
7.1 earthquake in Japan month after deadly tsunami
Experts say due to the severity of the initial quake aftershocks exceeding 7 could continue in a wide area.
CBS hides Obama’s part in soaring gas prices
CBS leaves out Obama’s war on oil as a part of the cause of rising gas prices.
Global temperature coolest in 15 years
March 2011 ended up as the coolest March globally since March of 1994. The actual global temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere last month was negative 0.026 C.
Global Warming Alarmism’s Long March through State and Local Institutions
We must keep in mind however that true believers don’t give up simply because theirs is a minority opinion. They just try in other ways.
House Democrats Opposed to Restricting EPA Authority Now, Supported it in 2009
House Democrats, in passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, stripped the EPA of the power they now want to preserve. That legislation was written by Waxman and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), another signatory of the April 4 letter.
The Green Regulation Machine: Saving the Planet or Killing Jobs?
When Dwayne Whitney started his trucking business decades ago he had only one truck. Today he has eighteen and 20 employees. But that’s about to change. In a few years, new air quality regulations approved by the California Air Resources Board will render Whitney’s entire fleet illegal.
Nothing wrong with America’s energy policy that another good old-fashion election can’t solve
Obama is once again giving lip service to a “new energy proposal”; but let’s remember the last time he trotted out a “new energy proposal” – nearly a year ago to the day. The main difference is today we have $4 a gallon gas in some places in the country. This is no accident. ~Sarah Palin