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Skeptical Science on a Skeptical Scientist: Patrick Moore on climate change

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Is there really a debate as to whether humans are contributing to Global Warming? This will take you some time, so if you are looking for a couple quick sound-bites, skip this entire post, and absolutely, skip the videos. Dr. Patrick Moore was recently pointed out to me as a qualified scientist and a active skeptic of Global Warming. Read about Moore on Wikipedia. He was an active founder of Greenpeace, but left the greenie…

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Pain in the Ash: Spill spews tons of coal ash into NC Dan River – CNN.com

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Spill spews tons of coal ash into North Carolina’s Dan River – CNN.com: Oh what a pain it is! … A Pain in the Ash, so to speak. One of the dirty little secrets of Coal is the ash!. The massive 2008 spill in TVA should have been a bit of a wakeup call. But this phone has been ringing for centuries. There’s impurities in coal, including sulfur and heavy metals like lead and arsenic….

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The Energy Quiz | ExxonMobil

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The Energy Quiz | ExxonMobil: Try the energy Quiz from ExxonMobil:  exxonmobil.com/quiz It has 4 categories related to energy: people, sources, uses and savings. There are 5 questions in each section. Interesting that the actual quiz lives here: http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/company/advertising-campaigns/energy-lives-here/quiz Under the advertising campaign. I didn’t do well on the quiz. And you probably won’t either. I do take issue with at least one of the 5 questions in each category. I don’t like how they state…

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How China’s economy is choking on smog | Talking Numbers – Yahoo Finance

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How China’s economy is choking on smog | Talking Numbers – Yahoo Finance: Imagine your favorite city closed down because of the weather, maybe a blizzard… Many of China’s cities can have the same problem, but it is because of smog pollution. This is a country that burns more coal than the rest of the world, combined. Nice thing is that they share this pollution with their neighbors. Plus the burning of coal is a…

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Natural gas, the media’s failures, and you « The Cost of Energy

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Natural gas, the media’s failures, and you « The Cost of Energy: Ouch! “The Cost of Energy” Lou Grinzo blogs (and reblogs) about how unclear NatGas really is. It all has to do with the Methane released from the fracking. See the reprint of the blog at EthicsAndClimate.org from Dr. Brown. Sadly NatGas may really not be cleaner than Coal. How dirty is that! Here’s my comments over to Lou’s post. Okay, as always, your…

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EPA proposes strict emission limits on new power plants

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EPA proposes strict emission limits on new power plants: Coal power plants, especially new ones, are under fire. As well they should be. Deaths in mining, deaths and health associated with smog and pollution, and the dirty secret of coal ash are enough to make a sane person push back from more coal power plants. BUT, here’s the kicker. What if we ship all of our coal over to China and have them burn it…