Posts Tagged ‘fossil fuels’

• Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate

  We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly …

• The greatest Astroturf of all time – Ethical oil

  If there’s one thing that makes any environmentalists blood boil, its got to be the practice of “greenwashing” where companies try to sell themselves as “green” when they are anything but. Then there’s “astroturfing” where a PR firm in the …

• IEA warns world headed for irreversible climate change in five years, greenhouse emissions soaring

  This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) released their yearly World Energy Outlook report. The energy report contained a very urgent call for action on climate. The IEA report warned that if our energy infrastructure is not rapidly changed the …

• Why we must stop coal to gas transition and fracking

  The atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is now 394 parts per million (ppm) but top climate scientists and biologists say that it must be urgently reduced to about 300 ppm for a safe and sustainable planet for all peoples and …

• Dishonest Australian Labor Government carbon price plan for climate change inaction

  Top climate scientists around the World are saying that to have a high probability of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise the World must stop GHG pollution by about 2050. However in Australia, a world leader in annual …

• Shocking analysis by country of years left to zero emissions

  We all know that we have to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and eventually reach zero emissions. Indeed top climate scientists and biologists are telling us that reaching zero emissions is not enough – we then have to reduce atmospheric …

• Australia’s outrageously deficient carbon tax entrenches climate change inaction

  The Gillard Labor Australian Federal Government has announced details of its Carbon Tax-ETS-Ignore Agriculture (CTETSIA) plan by which it ostensibly proposes to “tackle climate change”. However sensible analysis of the proposals makes it clear that Australia’s pro-coal, pro-gas Labor Government …

• Fossil fuel expansion is a crime against humanity

  Marc Lee who is the senior economist for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and chair of the Progressive Economics Forum writes in one of his latest articles that we should see fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity. …

• Majority of Americans say we should do whatever it takes to protect the environment

  A new survey titled “Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology” (pdf) from the Pew Resarch Center shows that public support for the environment and alternative energy sources is strong on both sides of the political scale in America. When …

• Carbon emissions sees record rise despite economic recession

  According to an unpublished report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) global greenhouse gas emissions has increased to new record levels. And this despite one of the worst economic recessions in recent history which analysts thought would lower the carbon …