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EIA: Fossil fuels will provide same 86% share in 2030
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts continuing strong demand for fossil energy. EIA’s just-released Annual Energy Outlook 2007 states: “Despite the projected rapid growth of…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 1: Pollution
“We have vastly increased the amount of carbon dioxide—the most important of the so-called greenhouse gases.” (AIT, 25) Hold on a minute…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 2: Hurricane Katrina
“Textbooks had to be re-written in 2004. They used to say, ‘It’s impossible to have hurricanes in the South Atlantic.’ But that year, for…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 3: Warming Rate
“And in recent years the rate of increase has been accelerating." (AIT, 72) That’s just plain wrong. Over the last…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 4: Moulins
"When the [melt-]water reaches the bottom of the ice, it lubricates the surface of the bedrock and destabilizes the ice mass, raising fears that…
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Beyond Petroleum?
Today’s Washington Post carries a full-page ad by BP boasting that the company, which calls itself “beyond petroleum,” is “investing up to $8 billion over…