Global warming: Capitalists skating on thin ice | The Socialist

These oil companies are not merely the unacceptable face of capitalism - they are its cutting edge, red in tooth and claw. The prospecting in the arctic must stop immediately before a new Deepwater Horizon type disaster happens. The whole energy industry needs to be nationalised under democratic workers' control and management and a new socialist plan of production immediately implemented based on renewable energy.

Interview: Alex Epstein on How Coal and Oil Improve Our Lives

[63-minute audio] Does the energy industry – particularly coal and oil – harm humans and destroy the environment? Are they necessary evils? Or are they positive goods?

The Case of the Alternating Ice Sheets | The Resilient Earth

There have been a wave of triumphal announcements by climate change proponents recently, almost giddy at the summer shrinkage of the Arctic ice sheet. “Lowest level ever!” they proclaim, thought that is not quite true. Nonetheless, The Arctic pack ice has been receding over the last decade or so, but that is only natural. You see, there is a well known, if poorly understood, linkage between the ice at the north pole and the ice in and around Antarctica—and the ice around Antarctica is doing quite well. Satellite radar altimetry measurements indicate that the East Antarctic ice sheet interior increased in mass by 45±7 billion metric tons per year from 1992 to 2003. This trend continues today, reinforcing recent scientific investigations into this millennial scale oscillation between the poles. According to studies, this is how things have been for hundreds of thousands of years.

SEC Issues Big Fines, Penalties Against Green-Tech Investment Firm | National Legal and Policy Center

The sordid activities and crony corporatism surrounding Advanced Equities, Badger and Daubenspeck – who huckstered “green” energy companies to investors and government in order to get every possible dollar they could – illustrates why taxpayer money should never be at stake in the venture capital process. The government needs to turn off the spigot – completely.

Nader: Capitol Hill needs substantive climate change debate - The Hill's E2-Wire

“There couldn’t have been a more defensive statement by President Obama than to say finally – he didn’t mention it in two state of the union speeches – 'climate change is not a hoax,' ” Nader said. “That’s a real aggressive statement. That would have made Teddy Roosevelt proud and Jimmy Carter and so forth.”
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Nader also recalled trying to set up a global warming debate between climate change skeptic Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and outspoken climate advocate Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.). Nader said that despite Inhofe’s eagerness, he could not get Markey to commit to the match.