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- Why the kerogen in oil shale will never fill up your tank
- ‘The oil we eat’. Following the food chain back to iraq
- Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
- Admiral Rickover 1957: Energy Resources & Our Future
- The Green New Deal is not a solution for the real problem: Overshoot
- A transition from fossil fuels to renewables could take a century – if it ever happens
Author Archives: energyskeptic
BioInvasion
BioInvasion Overview Animals Diseases Insects Ocean Plants Over 50,000 non-native species cause over $120 billion dollars of damage, per year, in the United States More than 120,000 species have invaded the USA, UK, Australia, India, South Africa and Brazil Invaders … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, Bioinvasion, bioinvasion cost, plant
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Animal BioInvasion
Mongoose. Brought to kill rats in sugar plantations in Puerto Rico and Hawaii in the 1800s. Now they’re destroying native birds, amphibians, and reptiles that would have been beneficial for pest control. 12 species of reptiles and amphibians have been … Continue reading
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Ocean BioInvasion
January 2016. Potential invasive species identified in S. Gulf of Mexico. November 2015. Marine invasive species benefiting from rising carbon dioxide levels Territories changing due to ocean acidification. March 2013. Invasive species: Understanding the threat before it’s too late. 7 … Continue reading
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Tagged antarctic, biodiversity, Bioinvasion, collapse, crabs, extinction, marine, ocean
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How and Why Corporate Interests Attack Science. A Detailed Account of the Attack on the Hockey Stick graph
A Book review of: Bradley, Raymond. S. 2011. Global Warming and Political Intimidation. How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated up. University of Massachusetts Press. I would read Oreskes’ “Merchants of Doubt. How a Handful of Scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged attack on science, climate change, extinction, global warming, global warming and political intimidation, hocky stick, raymond bradley, uninhabitable
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Termites, air pollution, and ozone depletion
Excerpts from the book below. Ozone depletion is also one of the 9 boundaries we must not cross. Klein, Hilary Dole, and Adrian M. Wenner 2001. Tiny Game Hunting: Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your … Continue reading
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Air Pollution effects on conifers in California
Below is an excerpt on how air pollution in California affects nearby forests from the book: Johnston, Verna R. 1994. California Forests and Woodlands: A Natural History. University of California Press. It was in the Mixed Conifer Forests of the … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, conifers, kings canyon national park, nitrogen oxides, ozone, ozone mottle, ponderosa pine, sequoia national park, yosemite
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