The Greatest Scam In History
It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
Edward Teller, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb, told a conference hosted by the American Petroleum Institute in 1959 that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels would lead to exactly the global warming conditions affecting the world today.
If you’ve followed CleanTechnica for long, you’ve surely run across the “100% renewable energy” work of Mark Jacobson. Basically, he has been uncovering how the world could go 100% renewable (on a country-by-country basis, and on a state-by-state basis in the US). You’ve probably also heard of a man who goes by the name Elon Musk — a South African dude now living in California who has a cleantech startup named after an old-timey dude from Croatia.
This week, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled in favor of Attorney General Maura Healey and ordered ExxonMobil to turn over 40 years of records which Healey believes will show the company is part of “the most consequential lie in human history.”
Climate change is a challenge unlike any other ever faced by humanity. It is the slow creep of change starting as a result of actions taken by humanity, building industries that helped hoist us out of thousands of years of toil into decades of technology-enabled prosperity.
Closing out this series of “link bombs,” here are other cleantech/green news items that don’t fit into the solar energy, wind energy, electric vehicle, and bicycling categories: Climate Change Related Leo DiCaprio Wins Oscar for Best Climate Activist! Leonardo DiCaprio’s Huge Carbon Footprint Leo DiCaprio Talks Climate Change Syria’s Drought Has Likely Been Its Worst … [continued]
We can’t afford to be blase about the new film Merchants of Doubt: “Oh, sure [stifling a yawn], everybody knows the climate change deniers are the same people who spent the 20th century saying smoking isn’t harmful to your health.” Ultra-sarcasm will get us exactly nowhere. Plenty of people have … [continued]