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Big Oil’s Tea Party
Posted on October 5th, 2010 3 commentshttp://www.desmogblog.com/astro-turf-wars-uncovered-new-undercover-documentary
If you, dear Reader, are a Republican American, and you are demographically “middle class”, and you support the Tea Party movement, you are likely to have been seriously deceived – by Big Energy. Or Big Mining.
Who are these “Big Diggers”, propagandising the naive, well-intentioned, right-wing citizens of the United States of America, so they don’t realise they’re thinking somebody else’s thoughts, shouting somebody else’s slogans, riding somebody else’s train ?
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Climate Union : Sharing Principles
Posted on June 28th, 2010 No comments
Image Credit : Gilbert & George, “Nettle Dance”, White Cube
I’m in the Climate Union. Are You ?
Soon we could all be, if the expansionist plans of a group of social campaigners come to fruition.
Taking in the unions, faith communities and the usual rag-tag bunch of issues activists, the Climate Union aims to establish itself as a political force for Low Carbon.
First of all, however, it has to tackle the uneasy and prickly problem of the exact name of the movement, and the principles under which it will operate.
The flag has been flown : a set of principles has been circulated for discussion amongst the “Climate Forum”. I cannot show you the finalised document yet, but I can offer you my comments (see below).
If you want to comment on the development of this emerging entity, please contact : Peter Robinson, Campaign against Climate Change, mobile/cell telephone in the UK : 07876595993.
Comments on the Climate Forum Principles
Jo Abbess
28 June 2010I am aware that my comments are going to be a little challenging. I made similar comments during the review of the ClimateSafety briefing, which were highly criticised.
I expect you to be negative in response to what I say, but I think it is necessary to make sure the Climate Forum does not become watered-down, sectorally imprisoned and politically neutered, like so many other campaigns.
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Fossil Fuels versus Corn Ethanol
Posted on June 14th, 2010 No comments
So, digging up dirty old decaying fish causes massive coastland and marine pollution. Would bioethanol from corn be better ?
http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/06/14/is-bps-oil-spill-an-opportunity-for-the-ethanol-lobby/
Not really. First there’s the amount of land required to grow all that corn to burn in all those tanks (see diagram at top of page).
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Cleaning Up Black Carbon
Posted on April 15th, 2010 No commentsFighting haze and smog from transport and industry may give us some breathing space (literally and metaphorically), by holding back Global Warming for a while, allowing us the time to get some effective legislation on turning back rising Carbon Dioxide emissions.
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dbailey/carbon_crossroads_california_c.html
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1938379,00.html
http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/whatonearth/posts/post_1270497028672.html
http://www.physorg.com/news170006509.html
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