Claim: CO2 Pollution Could Erase Coral Reefs — Reality Check: ‘Corals evolved during the Cambrian Era, when CO2 levels were 8 to 20 times higher than today’
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Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?
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NYT’s Tom Friedman ‘asserted Dem political consultants are advising their candidates not to mention ‘losing topic’ while GOP continue push to demonize phrase ‘climate change” & deny it exists’
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AP: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low; some experts optimistic on global warming
AP article: Many of the world’s leading climate scientists didn’t see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon dioxide
A frenzy of shale gas drilling in the Northeast’s Marcellus Shale and in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana has caused the wholesale price of natural gas to plummet from $7 or $8 per unit to about $3 over the past four years, making it cheaper to burn than coal for a given amount of energy produced. As a result, utilities are relying more than ever on gas-fired generating plants.
Both government and industry experts said the biggest surprise is how quickly the electric industry turned away from coal. In 2005, coal was used to produce about half of all the electricity generated in the U.S. The Energy Information Agency said that fell to 34 percent in March, the lowest level since it began keeping records nearly 40 years ago.
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‘Denier,’ ‘Alarmist,’ ‘Warmist,’ ‘Contrarian,’ ‘Confusionist,’ ‘Believer,’ : ;Are they merely ‘skeptics,’ a term many scientists and journalists prefer to apply, with honor, to themselves?’
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Climate Craziness of the Week – global warming causing helium shortage — ‘I think we can all blame global warming’ – Helium shortage threatens time-honored Nebraska tradition
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ABC Environment on Muller: This article…encapsulates all that is wrong with the national broadcaster’s treatment of climate debate’
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How Bad Data Contribute to Global Warming Hysteria
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Richard Muller’s ‘Alleged’ Big-Time Conversion: Was It News or Just Slick P.R.? Media ‘wasted precious time and energy on something that wasn’t news in the first place’
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