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Meet the Top Dozen “Climate Killers”
Andy Rowell
Jan13
As promised from yesterday, here are the top dozen Climate Killers from Rolling Stones list. According to the magazine, “the polluters and deniers are aiding Big Oil and Big Coal’s campaign to block progress on global warming”. I am sure you won’t agree with everyone on the list (as I don’t) so here goes: 1. …
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“Its easier to defeat Hitler than Big Coal and Oil…”
Andy Rowell
Jan12
Its not often now in journalism that someone tells you how it is and puts their neck on the line in no nonsense language. So good old Rolling Stone – the grandfather rock and roll mag that has a great article on how the oil and gas killed hopes of a climate deal in the…
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Its January, must be time for a Russian energy dispute
Andy Rowell
Jan11
It’s that time of year again. It’s January, snow is on the ground (and no that doesn’t mean that climate change is not happening), it’s freezing outside and … Russia is having an energy dispute with its neighbours. Somethings never change. This time it is Belarus and the spat is about oil rather than gas,…
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US biofuels: “Just throwing money out the window”
Andy Rowell
Jan08
In its investigation into the explosion of corporate lobbyists swarming around the US Climate Bill last year, the Centre for Public Integrity noted that “agriculture-based alternative fuels were especially well represented among the new lobbying entrees”. In fact, the CIJ pointed out, the agriculture industry is the fourth largest industry lobby on climate in the…
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Is Iraq a “Game-Changer” for Peak Oil?
Andy Rowell
Jan07
The Oil Drum is one of those great blogs that discusses energy and peak oil. It has consistently and coherently been ahead of the curve, shall we say, when it comes to exploring the issue of peak oil and what we, as a society, should be doing about it. But the New Year has brought…
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Is that what you call romance?
Andy Rowell
Jan06
The oil industry is built on a series of myths. It has always prided itself on an image that against the odds it has always prevailed – its teams of geologists and explorers have crossed the globe looking for deposits of oil. Whether it be in the jungles of South America, the harsh deserts of…
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IPCC: Watch out for the Sceptics and Lobbyists
Andy Rowell
Jan05
It is one of the ironies of the climate change debate that the greater the urgency for action on climate change, the louder the voices urging for inaction. There were thousands of corporate lobbyists at Copenhagen trying to undermine effective action. It would also be a foolish person who denied that the sceptics managed to…
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A New Year and a New Hope?
Andy Rowell
Jan04
After the severe disappointment of the Copenhagen Summit, when a watered-down wet blanket of a deal was signed, recriminations have flown far and fast with both China and the US being signalled out for blame. Depending on who you talk to, either country is the villain behind the Summit’s failure. “Contrary to countless reports, the…
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