Pentagon, Service Agencies Working to Enhance Security, Save Money and Reduce Emissions WASHINGTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Defense has initiated ambitious clean energy programs in service of economic, security and environmental goals according to "Reenergizing America's Defense," a report released today by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate. The report describes efforts by the U.S. military - whose usage accounts for nearly 80 percent of the U.S. government's energy consumption - to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and cut global warming pollution by enhancing energy efficiency and harnessing clean energy technologies.
President-Elect Barack Obama's energy strategists would not want to hear any bad news about wind power and that would be anathema to Al Gore and other assorted luminaries touting renewable energy sources that will save the world from the "tyranny" of fossil fuels and mitigate global warming.
Twenty-five years ago, a pipe ruptured at Dominion Virginia Power's Surry Unit 2 nuclear power plant. Scalding water struck eight workers. Four of them later died from their injuries. As Virginia and America look for energy sources to supplement and eventually replace fossil fuels, nuclear reactors are part of the conversation, as is their safety. Nuclear power almost certainly will play a role in America's energy future. Fossil fuels contribute to global warming and diminish daily.
[...] Eric Holdsworth, director of climate programs for the Edison Electric Institute, said right now the future of both industries is a little up in the air especially because of the current debate on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Veteran Forbes auto writer Jerry Flint says the Germans halted Chrysler's own product development and used billions of dollars on its balance sheet to help finance futile bids for Mitsubishi Motorsand Hyundai Motor. Robert K. Steel, and While Home Chief of Staff Joshua Rolten - were part of a presidential working group that concluded here was no need for government oversight of hedge funds and private equity firms. Former CEO Lee Raymond, like a modern day Dr. No, maintained that there was no connection between the use of fossil fuels and global warming.
AROUND 1930, when many senior West Virginians were born, the world's human population was 2 billion. It tripled to 6 billion by 1999, and it's projected to hit 7 billion by October. The manswarm is growing relentlessly, in a single lifetime. Overpopulation causes many problems: mountains of trash that bulge landfills, erosion of depleted cropland, epidemics, murky air pollution from fossil fuel burning, global warming from those fossil fuels, decapitation by mountaintop mining, famines and soaring food prices, vast poverty and slums in Third World nations, extinction of crowded-out wildlife, crime and stress in congested urban sardine cans, even wars in some crammed regions.
The theory of global warming is that use of fossil fuels such as oil, gasoline, coal, and natural gas (the foundation of the Industrial Revolution) is increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (C02). [...] let's pretend that any of these alternative energy sources could become technologically feasible.
A year ago, many U.S. leaders, trying to pave the way for federal control of energy sources and huge new taxes on fossil fuels, assured Americans that the argument over manmade global warming "is over. But overarching cap-and-tax legislation died. Proponents failed to convince the American people that 1) man's use of fossil fuels is the critical factor in global temperature, 2) that they fully understand the climate, and 3) that they know exactly what should be done about it.
TUCSON, Ariz., March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. and European policy to increase production of ethanol and other biofuels to displace fossil fuels is supposed to help human health by reducing "global warming." Instead it has added to the global burden of death and disease. Increased production of biofuels increases the price of food worldwide by diverting crops and cropland from feeding people to feeding motor vehicles. Higher food prices, in turn, condemn more people to chronic hunger and "absolute poverty" (defined as income less than $1.25 per day). But hunger and poverty are leading causes of premature death and excess disease worldwide. Therefore, higher biofuel production would increase death and disease.
Wisconsin has long been considered a leader in efforts to protect the environment through conservation and preservation policies. After all, the founder of Earth Day was former Gov. Gaylord Nelson. Now, Gov. Jim Doyle wants to make Wisconsin a leader in developing policies that will protect the environment by changing the way people use energy. Legislators have to make sure that those policies are effective, of course, but Doyle is headed in the right direction.
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