‘North American Shale Gas Resources Estimated at 3.3 Quadrillion Cubic Feet’: ‘Separate studies…have moved tally of N. American potential to a new plateau, beyond trillions to 3.3 quadrillion’
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Study finds little environmental impact from Canadian oil sands: The ‘toxins well downstream of the oil sands come from the environment, not big steel stacks…’
‘When scientists drilled into lake bottoms 200 kilometres from those oil-sands mines, they discovered something surprising: At that distance, levels of those pollutants were negligible. In fact, the lake sediments, whose layers opened a window onto hundreds of years of air and water quality, showed that in many ways those lakes are cleaner today than they were decades, and even centuries, ago.’
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Climatologist Dr. John Christy: ‘Oil & other carbon-based energies are simply the affordable means by which we satisfy our true addictions – long life, good health, plentiful food…’
Christy: ‘Rising CO2 emissions are one indication of poverty-reduction which gives hope for those now living in a marginal existence without basic needs brought by electrification, transportation and industry. Additionally, modern, carbon-based energy reduces the need for deforestation and alleviates other environmental problems such as water and deadly indoor-air pollution. Until affordable and reliable energy is developed from non-carbon sources, the world will continue to use carbon as the main energy source.
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When thinking about policy regarding CO2, one cannot ignore the immense benefits produced directly by CO2 or indirectly from in its relationship to low-cost energy. It is a simple fact that CO2 is plant food and the world around us evolved when levels of CO2 were five to ten times what they are today. Our green world is a consequence of atmospheric CO2. And, food for plants means food for people. The extra CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere not only invigorates the biosphere, but also enhances the yields of our food crops. In my view, this is a tremendous benefit to nature and to us.
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Thus, if the country deems it necessary to de-carbonize civilization’s main energy sources, then compelling reasons beyond human-induced climate change need to be offered that must address, for example, ways to help poor countries develop affordable energy. Climate change alone is a weak leg on which to stand to justify a centrally planned, massive change in energy production, infrastructure and cost.
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Romney and Obama avoid the climate change elephant: ‘Next week’s Republican convention will highlight – by its omission – how toxic climate change has become in the US’
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Must see video:’If I Wanted America To Fail’: ‘The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism—it’s become an economic suicide pact’
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Obama Looking To Make The US A Third World Country: ‘Obama believes that US made CO2 is evil, but Asian CO2 is OK’ — ‘Canada will send oil to Asia even if Keystone XL pipeline proceeds’
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Sen. Inhofe on Obama in Oklahoma: Rhetoric vs. Reality: ‘Obama wishes that America only had 2% of world’s oil reserves so that he can force us into his policies of energy austerity’
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Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Canadian TV on Keystone Pipeline: ‘It is the moral choice to choose carbon-based energy’ — ‘Obama has launched a war on carbon based fuels’
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Warren Buffett, the Keystone Pipeline, and Crony Capitalism
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Media Matters coordinates with Capitol Hill ‘allies’ on Keystone XL; Plus: 20,000 jobs ‘is not that many’
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