Category Archives: economics

Siberian permafrost thaw warning

2013-2-23 – 2:53 pm

“Such a thaw could damage this infrastructure with obvious economic implications.”

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Preference for a carbon tax to cutting spending for deficit reduction

2013-2-4 – 6:59 pm

Voters support it even when they’re Republican.

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Coaltopia

2012-8-26 – 7:08 pm

The major problem is encouraging greater use of a product that, in the future, is leading to the end of life on this planet as we know it.

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Wind Power Growing Fast in Parts of the U.S.

2012-8-16 – 7:32 am

By far, the largest wind power producing state is Texas.

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Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could

2012-7-27 – 2:08 pm

“unlike financial fraud or terrorist attacks,” (the Robber Barons, which decide what and what is not terrorism, want you to believe that “climate change does not register, emotionally, as a wrong that demands to be righted.”

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Median Cost of Electricity from Coal

2012-7-27 – 9:27 am

True cost estimate does not include lives taken from extreme weather from human caused climate change

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No Fracking, It’s Too Costly

2012-7-26 – 3:18 pm

“However hard they try to suppress government funding and tax breaks for renewables, Big Oil and Big Gas are doomed to lose, and in only about 4 years.”

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Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math

2012-7-19 – 7:26 pm

End of Life on the Planet as We know It, The Rolling Stone lists some of the companies bringing us this consequence,

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Carbon – the Huge and Yet Overlooked Fossil Fuel Subsidy

2012-7-13 – 7:05 pm

Society as a whole picks up the tab for the damage or ignores and denies the damage by human carbon emissions. Fossil fuel producers and consumers have avoided paying for these external costs to coal power.

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America’s Headed Back to the Robber-Baron Era

2012-7-4 – 5:37 pm

“Over the past 40 years, corporations and politicians have rolled back many of the gains made by working and middle-class people over the previous century. ‘

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