Tag: politics
member name: Sam Carana
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June 26, 2007 02:43 AM EDT --
Global Warming - Tax or Standards?
As global warming becomes an increasingly urgent issue, there are many calls for action. Many call for standards to be set, to achieve a reduction in pollution. . . .
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April 03, 2007 04:55 AM EDT --
What characterizes our Times? I recently asked friends to name things that were most characteristic of the times we live in now. Here's the top ten answers I got.
1. Global Warming
Global warming . . .
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April 06, 2007 04:05 AM EDT --
The US Supreme Court ruled on April 2nd that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must limit greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide.
Four Bills are now under discussion in the Senate that . . .
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April 08, 2007 03:30 AM EDT --
There are many things we can all do to reduce our contributions to global warming. Here are ten things politians can do now to make a difference:
1. Tax energy supply that adds extra heat to global . . .
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June 15, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
The quickest and most effective way to deal with global warming is to tax greenhouse gas emissions and to spend the proceeds to encourage the use of renewable energy locally.
Tax puts a price on pollution . . .
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March 07, 2007 12:18 AM EST --
Let's have a look at the many concerns and dangers associated with global warming and the resulting changes in climate around the world. I've tentatively grouped them into ten points.
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September 21, 2007 05:08 AM EDT --
The above image is from a NASA news release discussing that interactions with aerosols boost the global warming potential of gases such as methane . A study published in Science by a team led by . . .
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November 26, 2007 09:58 PM EST --
Should politicians get a salary for participating in the political system? Should politicians get paid for their travel and their hotel cost? I say NO! Do not pay politicians! Politics is about ideas. . . .
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
It's time to think about an exit strategy for Iraq. In my view, it would be best to split up Iraq into three separate nations, one for the Sunnis, one for the Shiites and one for the Kurds. This should . . .
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August 13, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Many politicians claim to act in the interest of the public, yet they act in the interest of a narrow group. The nature of the electoral system (one election every three or four years) makes that politicians . . .
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September 29, 2007 03:56 AM EDT --
Last Friday, President George W. Bush urged delegates of the world's 16 biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to agree on an approach to deal with global warming. "By next summer, we will . . .
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September 05, 2008 11:05 PM EDT --
Electric and Hybrid Cars: A History
By Curtis D. Anderson, Judy Anderson
199 pages - published by McFarland & Company (November 1, 2004)
This book describes and illustrates . . .
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October 01, 2007 06:18 AM EDT --
Globally, wind power generation more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2006. But while wind power is making steady progress in Europe, the U.S. gets less than 1% of its electricity from wind power,
Spain . . .
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December 28, 2007 03:38 AM EST --
The best way to deal with global warming is a FeeBate policy. This works fast and effectively, is ideology- and budget-neutral and has the least risk of feeding a wasteful bureaucracy.
In essence, a . . .
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August 13, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
Off-shore drilling is a stunt! The perceived need for off-shore drilling is a stunt designed to make it look as if McCain was making efforts to lower oil prices. Oil companies have until now rarely even . . .
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September 19, 2008 10:13 AM EDT --
Emission trading will not work !
We should recognize that a global emission trading scheme will only sabotage real efforts to reduce emissions. It's a scheme designed by neocons and polluting . . .
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January 13, 2009 05:34 AM EST --
Cycle A: Inorganic Waste
We're all familiar with the idea that we're running out of scarce resources. We just cannot continue to keep drilling and mining for more fossil fuel, metals . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:10 AM EST --
President Obama, please read this!
The energy and environmental policy that you have proposed for the U.S. is a patchwork of policies, ranging from higher fuel efficiency standards and subsidies for . . .
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September 17, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
Hydrogen fuel cells constitute an efficient way to store energy and as such they form an important component in our struggle to contain global warming. Hydrogen fuel cells are a convenient and clean . . .
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September 26, 2009 05:18 AM EDT --
As I discussed in What will power your next car? , solar/PV energy represented a meager 0.081% of the energy produced in the US in 2007, barely more than the 0.066% it produced back in 2000. Renewables' . . .
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