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A matter of degree

If you have any doubts that some folks are rushing to get in position to get rich off climate change and high energy prices, I gotta bridge I'll sell ya.Perhaps no finer proof of the gold rush around energy: a new university training program in "carbon management." The University...

Tags: global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Hard cheese for hard coal

They may stop mining hard coal in Germany. The energy source that literally fueled Germany's manufacturing in the 19th and 20th Centuries will no longer come from German mines in the Ruhr Valley. The Washington Post article today points out how heavily the German underground coal mines have...

Tags: renewable energy, nuclear power, global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-29

Ozone revisited

There's a detailed, delightful (if you're a chemist) explication of the recent ozone research over on the realclimate blog. It's helpful to follow the realclimate blog's explanation of the vast difference between ozone's behavior on the earth's surface, and in the stratosphere.I early blogged the original research publication right...

Tags: research, global warming, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Good news for the future

Airplanes are a cursed blessing. They make travel over long distances possible in less time than anybody could have imagined 120 years ago. A week to take a steamer from New York to Liverpool. Sound like fun?But the curse comes with all that crud jets spew into...

Tags: research, green tech, global warming, fossil fuel, federal government, energy, climate change, Blogroll, aviation &, aeronautics, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Ozone: too much here, too little there

Hey folks, can we just get our ozone in balance? Seems like crystals and mantras aren't gonna do it. There's no political stigma on climate change research in Britain so they're regularly coming with up new findings.Today comes a study saying there are chmicals in the Antarctic that...

Tags: research, green tech, global warming, climate change, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Finding fault in Japan

The July 16th earthquake that hit Japan's Niigata prefecture has left the country shaken: sesimically, politically, economically. There are elections for the nation's upper house on July 29.The elections could be affected by public anger and fear after the quake badly damaged the world's largest nuclear power plant, measured...

Tags: nuclear power, green tech, global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-25

Additional Resources

Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday

That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...

Tags: Blogging, Arctic

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...

Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?

There is no disagreementThere really never was. Scientists are in agreement that global climate change is happening you may have noticed the conferences.We will always have idiots. It's just that some of them happen to own media and political parties or are making way too much money with...

Tags: climate change, mankind

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

The earth: it's always blowing hot and cold

And That's The ProblemInstead of humans, use dinosaurs, plankton, what ever. But tell me where is the definitive study that quantifies the human activity contribution separate that contribution form the quantifiable contribution of other geologic, solar, and biological processes?And where, pray tell, is it written that climate will be...

Tags: tech site

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

The earth: it's always blowing hot and cold

One of the frequent comments I hear from informed folk who've gone to the trouble to look at what we know about past climate cycles on earth: the hot and then the ice age, they come and go. That's true. Here's what I replied to one such reasonable...

Tags: Earth, Pollution, Ozone, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...

a whole string of international meetings aimed at coming to some kind of globally acceptable agreement on global warming. Consider this a warm-up for the sci fi imagined event of the killer asteroid headed our way. Can humans really co-operate on the mega-scale? We haven't so far....

Tags: Agreement, Climate Change, Global Warming, Pittsburgh, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Environmental groups dump on "global warming" bill

A gang of environmental groups are calling the current proposed energy and security act a sham, another government giveaway. The bill has just passed out of the House Committee where debate was held. Here's the crux of some environmnentalists' complaint: "As passed through the Energy and...

Tags: U.S., Permit, Carbon Dioxide, Pollution, Global Warming, Cap And Trade, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Global warming heating up Washington D.C.

There are many billions of dollars at stake. Not since the Wall Street meltdown have we seen such high stakes in the lobbyist-WhiteHouse-Congress axis. From oil to transportation to electricity to corn to solar to your very kitchen and office air conditioning--everything is in play. Costs may...

Tags: Climate, Global Warming, Transportation, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-10

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?RE: Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?Energy conservation is great and benefits everyone. Carbon credits are phony. Much warming data is built on computer models that don't show any warming unless a "correction factor" is added.If Al Gore is so serious about climate...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, TVs, Energy Conservation, Carbon Credits, tax, Humanity!, climate change, Obamasiah, Climate Change

Discussion threads 2009-03-28

Calling all carbon capture and recycling companies

Calling all carbon capture and recycling companiesRecycling is illegal.You can't make anything out of garbage!Really who would purchase anything made out of garbage?There would be no way that garbage particles could be filtered out of plastic or even paper to make the material good enough for use in these sophisticated...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Big Brother, inmate, recycling company, carbon capture, tax, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Detroit? Climate Change? Waiting games continue

There'll be no word on loans to Detroit's Shrinking Three from the White House until the U.S. President returns from his trip abroad. So the American-owned carmakers, the UAW and the many parts suppliers, not to mention dealers and potential customers if there are any left, will just twist...

Tags: Game, Automobile Company, NASCAR, Manufacturing, 401(k), Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-14

Court's decision is boon for alternative energy

Court's decision is boon for alternative energyWhen will they learn?The last 168 BILLION DOLLAR round of stimulus checks did NADA for our economy. We must not as a nation forget the role the high cost of our dependence on foreign fuel played in the demise of businesses from the largest...

Tags: Green Energy, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2008-11-14