Despite the talk, ideology doesn’t translate to actual alternative energy | Viewpoints, Outlook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
But “clean and green” it is: the simplistic formula to make it look like we're serious about producing more energy. It will produce votes, not material energy. It's not enough and never will be. We're headed for an energy abyss.Rise in UK carbon emissions disputed by report | Environment | The Observer
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Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil, is founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy.
A major study for the UK government has cast doubt over claims that rising temperatures are causing soil to pump greater amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further fuelling global warming.Student art project is vandalism for a cause | The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind.
In 2005 it was reported in the science journal Nature that over the past 25 years 100m tonnes of carbon dioxide had been released by the soil of England and Wales. The figure cancelled out all emissions cuts in the UK since 1990.
However, a national survey of the soils of Great Britain, funded by the department for environment food and rural affairs, claims to have found no net loss of carbon over approximately the same period.
BLOOMINGTON – Stickers announcing "I am coal" have cropped up on electrical fixtures, displays and other structures around the world thanks to an Indiana University student who says the stickers are vandalism, but for a good cause.[Don't you hate it when your phone charger causes things like this?]: The Most Terrifying Effect of Global Warming in Pictures | Environmental Graffiti
Junior Cristina Vanko enlisted family and friends worldwide to affix the stickers as part of a class in art, engagement and activism. They have appeared in U.S. cities including Bloomington, Chicago, San Francisco and New York and internationally in Europe, Argentina, New Zealand and even Iraq.
Vanko’s class is part of The Canary Project, a New York-based program that uses visual media, events and artwork to build public understanding of climate change issues.
Vanko said her project amounts to "smart vandalism" and that she’s glad it has engaged others.
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I see your smartass interjections about bad weather and phone chargers and they always raise a smile in me, because you have the knack of making the hypocrisy and wide-eyed idealism of the greenies look kerazzy.
I have a friend who posts nonsense about reducing emissions all the time and yet when I challenge him to demonstrate the changes he has made he has to admit to none.
These people are always deluded, and generally naive socialists. Which is the key that made me investigate this topic from a sceptical view.
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