In love with the lusty wind
Interview with wind energy expert Randall Tinkerman.
Energy Policy
Transport – Jan 30
Parking hike for high polluters
Paris to roll out free bicycles
NYT: A faith-based fuel initiative
Climate – Jan 30
Scientists say White House pressured them
UN agency asks for a climate summit
Cap & trade – what US can learn from Europe
Millions to go hungry, waterless: report
World scientists near consensus on warming
Bush and energy – Jan 29
Bush directive increases sway on regulation
The long road to energy independence
Reporters discuss President’s energy plans
Monbiot: Don’t be fooled by Bush’s defection: his cures are another form of denial
Kudos for seeing the problem. Now do something
In short, [President Bush], it’s all fine and good to ask the car companies and other manufacturing and business enterprises to deliver more fuel-efficient products and services. It’s the right thing to preach against oil addiction. But it’s all relatively meaningless if no one in power does anything to wake American consumers from their pleasant dream of cheap oil forever.
Climate – Jan 28
TOD: Greenland, or why you might care about ice physics
New IPCC report – the sugarcoated version?
Experts split over climate danger to Antarctica
Bush’s climate remarks weighed for policy shift
Climate – Jan 27
Bill McKibben: Step it up!
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors
We’re ruining Earth, scientists warn (IPCC)
UN’s vast report ends the scientific argument, but will the world act?
Davos – not united on global warming
Biofuels and U.S. policy – Jan 26
Professor: Bush’s dangerous energy proposal
Krauthammer: a serious plan requires taxes, ANWR and nukes
Chicken industry issues warning
Feed costs rising: meat groups want study
U.S. energy policy – Jan 25
Bodman: U.S. veeds more ethanol imports
Energy research on a shoestring [energy lab underfunded]
Be careful what you wish for: the politics of cheap oil
Climate policy – Jan 25
Australia should lead the energy revolution
Stern challenges Bush with call for green tax
Combatting climate change cheaper than originally thought
Merkel calls for tough emissions controls
Developing nations dig in heels on climate change
Climate on the big screen: “Everything’s Cool”
Bush’s SOTU – rhetoric and reality on energy
Post Carbon: The danger of a few little words
Switching to snake oil
Bush’s bogus cure for our oil addiction
NY Times: Energy rhetoric, and reality
American way of life still not up for negotiation
U.S. and biofuels – Jan 24
Contradictions seen in alternative energy plan
Ethanol production booming on demand
WaPo: Blindness on biofuels
Springtime for ethanol
