The Week that Was, March 27, 2012 By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Climate Catastrophe: We are witnessing a number of trends as the globe refuses to obey global warming models. One, since there is no global warming trend, the term trend has been dropped in favor of the […]
Category: Energy and Environment
National Grid and Petrofac plan £1bn Scottish carbon capture and storage plant Energy network operator National Grid and oil services company Petrofac have joined with US developer Summit Power to enter a £1bn government competition to build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. The previous government competition to award £1bn funding for the commercial […]
Issa Report Uncovers Fraud in DOE Loans Today the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), released the full report on its investigation of the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program. Readers of IER will not be surprised to learn that the report documents numerous abuses in the program, and […]
The Week that Was, March 18, 2012By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Global Governance: Science magazine contained an article advocating global governance titled “Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance.” As the push for Rio +20 Earth Summit, UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 20 – 22, 2012, […]
The Copenhagen Climate Council (CCC) was founded as a “global collaboration between international business and science” in 2007 by·Monday Morning, the leading independent think tank in Scandinavia. CCC’s members, or·councillors, include 32 influential business, science, and public-policy leaders. To date, the Council is best known for the work it did to “create global awareness of […]
As last year’s Arab spring has slowly roiled eastwards from Tunisia to the eastern Mediterranean, the two most concerned governments are the U.S. and Israel, that are watching their carefully constructed defense alignments crumble to the populist forces unleashed. After decades of repression, the Arab “street” is finding its democratic voice, which is rejecting the […]
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) just released its report, Sales of Fossil Fuels Produced on Federal and Indian Lands, FY 2003 Through FY 2011.[i] This report shows that total fossil fuel production on federal lands is falling, natural gas production on federal lands is falling, and oil production on federal land fell in 2011 ending […]
Study of the Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Deeply Flawed A November 2011 study[1] by the Analysis Group claims that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has showered $1.6 billion in “economic value added” to the ten participating states in the years 2009–2011. However, the study has several serious flaws, in that […]
A delegation from the International Energy Agency spent two days in Baghdad speaking with high-ranking officials in preparation for an end-of-year report on the country’s oil sector. By some estimates, Iraq could hold some of the largest oil reserves in the world and an international auction for oil and natural gas blocks is planned for […]
A major public concern about nuclear reactors has been that the spent nuclear fuel could remain stranded at the reactor site indefinitely. In the 1970s, courts prohibited the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from licensing new reactors unless it assured the public that the waste would be removed—a requirement called the “waste confidence” rule. President Obama’s decision […]
Part II (see Part I) The works of Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) and Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) would form the foundation of science in Bolshevik Russia, and later in National Socialist Germany, creating the environmental movement we see today. In 1883, Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895) wrote Dialectics of Nature where he applied […]
Opiate of the People | The Peoples Cube People’s scientists yesterday took a break from their urgent research on how to procure more funding for Climate Change studies, in order to ring the alarm about a new urgent source of anxiety for the masses, which will undoubtedly cause them to demand more state protection: radical […]