Comments on: CLIMATE CHANGE is THE ISSUE in the USA and ELSEWHERE https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/01/03/climate-change-is-the-issue-in-the-usa-and-elsewhere/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jim Krane https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/01/03/climate-change-is-the-issue-in-the-usa-and-elsewhere/#comment-225595 Jim Krane Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:23:35 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=26568#comment-225595 <strong>Energy Kingdoms — Cheap Oil vs. Climate Change</strong> New book by Jim Krane, Columbia University Press, 2019. 220 pp. Science 11 Jan 2019: Vol. 363, Issue 6423, pp. 132 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav7012 SUMMARY —- Since the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the six Gulf monarchies — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates — have become known for their seemingly endless supply of cheap energy and a growing domestic appetite for it. However, in the face of a changing climate, the very policies that led to their development and prosperity are today posing a threat as the region faces record-breaking temperatures. Jim Krane's compelling new <strong>Energy Kingdoms</strong> book takes readers inside this critical energy conundrum. Energy Kingdoms — Cheap Oil vs. Climate Change

New book by Jim Krane, Columbia University Press, 2019. 220 pp.

Science 11 Jan 2019:
Vol. 363, Issue 6423, pp. 132
DOI: 10.1126/science.aav7012

SUMMARY —-

Since the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the six Gulf monarchies — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates — have become known for their seemingly endless supply of cheap energy and a growing domestic appetite for it.

However, in the face of a changing climate, the very policies that led to their development and prosperity are today posing a threat as the region faces record-breaking temperatures. Jim Krane’s compelling new Energy Kingdoms book takes readers inside this critical energy conundrum.

]]> By: Mary Wildfire https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/01/03/climate-change-is-the-issue-in-the-usa-and-elsewhere/#comment-225358 Mary Wildfire Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:09:29 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=26568#comment-225358 The stupidity of this makes my TEETH ache. Here we are, at the very end of the period in which our actions could avert, not severe impacts from climate change but utter devastation, perhaps the end of our species--and we're celebrating a rare piece of "mainstream media" coverage in which the issue is not whether climate change is real...and the guests are all the kind who want to make money from weak half measures. Their Summit in SF was protested by serious activists because of Brown's hypocrisy, all the gas and oil wells permitted. They have allowed fracking wastes to be dumped into the ocean, and California actually held a workshop for drillers to show them how they could get around regulations against their wastes getting into drinking water--by dumping into pristine water supplies now, so they wouldn't be considered pristine and protected!! WV doesn't do that! If you are alive 30 years from now, you will be trying to explain this to young people. What will you say? Mary Wildfire The stupidity of this makes my TEETH ache. Here we are, at the very end of the period in which our actions could avert, not severe impacts from climate change but utter devastation, perhaps the end of our species–and we’re celebrating a rare piece of “mainstream media” coverage in which the issue is not whether climate change is real…and the guests are all the kind who want to make money from weak half measures.

Their Summit in SF was protested by serious activists because of Brown’s hypocrisy, all the gas and oil wells permitted. They have allowed fracking wastes to be dumped into the ocean, and California actually held a workshop for drillers to show them how they could get around regulations against their wastes getting into drinking water–by dumping into pristine water supplies now, so they wouldn’t be considered pristine and protected!!

WV doesn’t do that! If you are alive 30 years from now, you will be trying to explain this to young people. What will you say?

Mary Wildfire

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