T. Boone Pickens is a guy who has one of those names that sounds made up, but his fortune is very real. Now he’s diversifying his portfolio with green energy tech.
Here’s more from Contrarian Profits:
Crude oil soared as high as US$135 a barrel last week - more than double the price of a year ago. [...]

In March 2007, I wrote about the Peak Oil theory and posted a pretty alarming video. And now that we’re seeing record gas prices, the whispers of peak oil are surfacing once again.
So, here’s the video that outlines the theory…

Then, here’s a post from the Prometheus: The Science Policy Weblog about the topic and how [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about McCain’s seemingly paper thin plan to help the environment, Obama’s plan would provide immediate funds to help create the technology that will help big polluters get cleaner and ultimately buy fewer emission credits.
Here’s more from MSNBC:
Here in [Michigan], he unveiled his proposals for reviving American manufacturing. The plan [...]

Folks, the idea of trading emission credits between companies has been around for nearly 20 years in this country, and McCain has been a proponent for quite some time. And sure, the expansion of the program could help curb some greenhouse gases, but this is McCain’s big idea?
From his speech yesterday…
“The United States will [...]

For the next couple weeks he’ll be talking about how we can address these problems.
And maybe in a sign of how progressive McCain seems to be on the environment, the Sierra Club says they may not endorse anybody in 2008.
From WSJ:
In a sign of Sen. McCain’s potential appeal to environmentally conscious voters, a top official [...]

One bit of good “moderate” news that’s going to come out of the 2008 campaign, climate change is at the forefront of both agendas.
From The Examiner:
“John McCain is going to be doing more of these themed tours of America, and one of them is going to be on energy and global climate change. It could [...]

Yesterday, Al Gore told NPR that the Myanmar cyclone was a consequence of global warming. Gore has previously alluded to Hurricane Katrina being a result of global warming as well. The problem is, there is no good scientific proof that global warming is influencing the destructiveness of these storms. Gore is making a conjecture and [...]

Just in case anyone is not familiar with the meaning of the phrase “like a canary in a coal mine” this is it:
“Early coal mines did not feature ventilation systems, so miners would routinely bring a caged canary into new coal seams. Canaries are especially sensitive to methane and carbon monoxide, which made them ideal [...]

Very interesting development that could help address the big bio-fuel scam we’re currently being sold.
From CNN:
ANTHONY, Texas (CNN) — Texas may be best known for “Big Oil.” But the oil that could some day make a dent in the country’s use of fossil fuels is small. Microscopic, in fact: algae. Literally and figuratively, this is [...]

Why?
Well, first off, you have to read this post where she mocks people who were trying to have one hour of no energy consumption around the world.
In response, she proposed the following…

Cranking up your thermostats.
Returning your CFLs.
Protesting PETA’s animal cruelty and animal rights/environmental terrorism.
Purchasing a carbon debit package.
Informing your local public school teacher of Al [...]

Bio-fuel is creating more problems than it’s fixing…like deforestation. This isn’t new information, but until the media starts pushing it on A1, nobody will care.
From TIME:
Backed by billions in investment capital, this alarming phenomenon is replicating itself around the world. Indonesia has bulldozed and burned so much wilderness to grow palm oil trees for biodiesel [...]

I said it before, and it bears repeating, biofuels aren’t the answer for the long term.
In the short term it can be argued they may be a useful way to ween ourselves off of foreign oil, but everything I’ve read so far suggests even if biofuel production was firing on all cylinders, we’d still [...]

Found over at Sully’s place:
One might even wonder if a McCain presidency, combined with a Democratic Congress, offers the best chance for a bipartisan-yet-still-decent emissions-reduction bill to get enacted and stay enacted. (Think Schwarzenegger and health care in California.) I’m skeptical, but it’s not an outlandish argument.
I think we’re all very well aware that the [...]

See the yellow? That’s plastic refuse that has found its way into the Pacific and were pushed into the North Pacific Gyre, a place where trade winds essentially circle and trap any debris into the massive areas you see on the map. One of them is estimated to be twice the size of Texas.
From Daily [...]

Well, not exactly, but it might help.
This according to a very interesting article in the Wash Post today that details how divorce is hurting the environment…
The analysis found that cohabiting couples and families around the globe use resources more efficiently than households that have split up. The researchers calculated that in 2005, divorced American households [...]

It’s not the lifeline many think, and that meme is gaining steam.
From WSJ:
Little over a year ago, ethanol was winning the hearts and wallets of both Main Street and Wall Street, with promises of greater U.S. energy independence, fewer greenhouse gases and help for the farm economy. Today, the corn-based biofuel is under siege.
In the [...]

This is after one day’s work in the mines. The guy is taking a bath to get all the soot off of his body. That’s just insane.
And as Speigel Online reports:
hina’s coal industry is the world’s most dangerous, as measured by the number of miners who are killed per year. In the first 10 months [...]

Shaun Mullen points to a growing trend among Republicans, brought about by the spectre of permanent minority status.
From TMV:
A politician knows he has a problem when his own children warn him that they might vote against him.
That is what happened to Representative Bob Inglis of South Carolina, who like President Bush and most of his [...]

Have we made a deal with the devil?
From NY Times:
Environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on the Chinese public but also an acute political challenge to the ruling Communist Party. And it is not clear that China can rein [...]