Campaign 2016: Where Are The Candidates On Energy?
With the 2016 campaign underway too early for comfort, some of the candidates are starting to state their energy policies.
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Why Carbon Taxes Would Be the Ultimate Energy Game-Changer
Carbon taxes are one of the most effective ways to curb the use of fossil fuels and promote renewable energy sources. And they also help businesses because providing for a predictable price of carbon encourages investment. Has their time finally arrived?
Read more...Paradise Burning: Why We All Need to Learn the World ‘Anthropogenic’
When fire can eat a rainforest in a relatively cool climate, you know the Earth is beginning to burn.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Rorschach Candidacy of Hillary Clinton
What you can learn from applying the Hillary Clinton Rorschach test to friends and family!
Read more...Gaius Publius: One Way to Ease the Worldwide Water Crisis — End Privatization
“We have 15 years to avert a full-blown water crisis.” Why stopping privatization of water will help.
Read more...California’s North Coast Wine Industry: How “Sustainable” Is It?
How California’s wine industry contributes to the drought and spends big bucks to tell consumers otherwise.
Read more...Gaius Publius: California Drought, the “Bigger Water Crisis” & the Consumer Economy
The California drought is exacerbating severe, structural problems with water use in the West.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Climate Defeatism is as Much a Threat to Human Survival as Climate Denial – Part 1
Human beings face the choice whether to preserve parts of our present civilization or create elements of a new one or alternatively, head towards self-extinction.
Read more...Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power, The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake
How Seneca Lake in upstate New York became a key battleground in the fight over fracking.
Read more...Military Spending Could Give Big Boost to Renewable Energy
The military has a keen interest in reducing its dependence on conventional fuel sources for transportation and the spending heft to speed development.
Read more...Bill Black: A Harvard Don is Enraged that Pope Francis is “Opposed to the World Economic Order”
An economics professor rails against Pope Francis for daring to point out that we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds.
Read more...Naomi Oreskes: The Hoax of Climate Change Denial
How climate change denialists have opened up a new front in their attacks on climate science.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: The Climate (and Climate Justice!) Movement Cannot Remain a Genteel Environmentalist Movement
Hoexter examines the disconnect between the preferred methods of climate activists versus the magnitude and urgency of the issues they are trying to address. His analysis echoes an important 2012 post by Richard Kline, Progressively Losing.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Only Solution to Climate Change — Outlaw Fossil Fuel Production
Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as well.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Constant Cost of Carbon — Another California Oil Spill
The climate/political nexus behind the latest California oil spill.
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