Warmist George Schultz on Keystone XL: ‘It is an absolute calamity that it was not approved long ago’
…Former NASA scientist James Hansen: ‘Climate change is altering people’s lives, right now, from the United States to Africa to the Arctic. It is as clear and present a danger as we’ve ever seen’
…Senate Dems urge Obama to approve Keystone XL pipeline – Dem Sen. Manchin: ‘I’d rather buy oil from my friends than my enemies’
…Gore Effect Strikes Another Global Warming Rally: Global warming follies in Calgary against Keystone Pipeline: Because of a snowstorm, only 50 of 300 expected protesters show up; emergency shelters fill as homeless scramble to escape the low temperatures
…Oil sands not a major source of climate change, says IEA economist
The International Energy Agency (IEA) chief economist Fatih Birol…
Canada Not Waiting For Obama’s Decision on Keystone XL – ‘They’re just going to ship their oil from Alberta to the United States on trains instead’
…Retired NASA Scientist James Hansen: Tar sands oil would “guarantee climate disasters”; Citizens Climate Lobby deserves the highest priority (and sorry I forgot about their conference call last night)
Hansen: Tar sands oil would “guarantee climate disasters”; Citizens Climate Lobby deserves the highest priority (and sorry I forgot about their conference call last night)
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/10/hansen-tar-sands-oil-would-climate.html
David vs Goliath, James Hansen, Oct 21, 2013Tar sands operations today are ugly enough, but if that expansion happens and infrastructure is put in place to carry the products away, there surely will be a monstrous rape of the land. And from the climate standpoint, we cannot accept the massive carbon amounts in unconventional fossil fuels without guaranteeing climate disasters. …”David” in this case was the Friends of Earth Europe contingent, a small determined middle-aged lady supported by a few young people. …Citizens Climate Lobby deserves the highest priority — and I am very distraught that I forgot about my scheduled time to be on their monthly call last evening.
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Peak Oil Redux: World oil production is 50% higher today than in 1973
Peak Oil Redux: World oil production is 50% higher today than in 1973
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/peak-oil-redux-world-oil-production-is.html
Daniel Yergin: Why OPEC No Longer Calls the Shots
The oil embargo 40 years ago spurred an energy revolution. World production is 50% higher today than in 1973.
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DANIEL YERGIN
WSJ.COM 10/14/13: Forty years ago, on Oct. 17, 1973, the world experienced its first “oil shock” as Arab exporters declared an embargo on shipments to Western countries. The OPEC embargo was prompted by America’s military support for Israel, which was repelling a coordinated surprise attack by Arab countries that had begun on Oct. 6, the sacred Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
With prices quadrupling in the next few months, the oil crisis set off an upheaval in global politics and the world economy. It also challenged America’s position in the world, polarized its politics at home and shook the country’s confidence.
Yet the crisis meant even more because it was the birth of the modern era of energy. Although the OPEC embargo seemed to provide proof that the world was running short of oil resources, the move by Arab exporters did the opposite: It provided massive incentive to develop new oil fields outside of the Middle East—what became known as “non-OPEC,” led by drilling in the North Sea and Alaska.
The Prudhoe Bay oil field was discovered in Alaska five years before the crisis. Yet opposition by environmentalists had prevented approval for a pipeline to bring the oil down from the North Slope—very much a “prequel” to the current battle over the Keystone XL pipeline. Only in the immediate aftermath of the embargo did a shaken Congress approve a pipeline that eventually added at its peak as much as two million barrels a day to the domestic supply.
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A Connecticut filling station in 1974 amid the oil embargo.
The push to find alternatives to oil boosted nuclear power and coal as secure domestic sources of electric power. The 1973 crisis spawned the modern wind and solar industries, too. By 1975, 5,000 people were flooding into Washington, D.C., for a conference on solar energy, which had been until then only “a subject for eco-freaks,” as one writer noted at the time.
That same year, Congress passed the first Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which required auto makers to double fuel efficiency—from 13.5 miles per gallon to 27 miles per gallon—ultimately saving about two millions …
TransCanada says no Keystone XL permit in 2013 — Obama for ‘all of the above’ except fossil fuels
TransCanada says no Keystone XL permit in 2013 — Obama for ‘all of the above’ except fossil fuels
Reuters reports: TransCanada Corp no longer expects a decision on the U.S. presidential permit required for the Keystone XL pipeline by the end of the year, the company said in a Wednesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision. The pipeline could carry up to 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian and U.S. oil […]
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McAuliffe’s ‘Green’ Billionaire Backer Enriched Himself with Coal, Oil: VA gubernatorial candidate McAuliffe said in 2009 he ‘never wants another coal plant built, but in the meantime, he hasn’t been above taking money gained through coal investment for his campaign’
McAuliffe’s ‘Green’ Billionaire Backer Enriched Himself with Coal, Oil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3070069/posts
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said in 2009 he “never want[s] another coal plant built,” but in the meantime, he hasn’t been above taking money gained through coal investment for his campaign. Tom Steyer, a California-based financier and one of McAuliffe’s wealthiest out-of-state supporters, told his advisers in August to launch climate change television ads via his group, NextGen Climate Action Committee, in Virginia to help turn out the vote for McAuliffe, Politico reported in August. Steyer (pictured, left) said, “I would say there’s a very clear choice on this topic between these two candidates, and I think the citizens…
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