It is clear, it is odorless, it is tasteless, it is a total benefit, thousands of research papers that have been written on the benefits of additional carbon dioxide.
(Leighton Steward, lobbyist and retired Texas oil man)
We are not a very deep thinking population.
(Wally Broecker, Columbia University geochemistry professor)
Bill McKibben and the journalist Chris Hedges had a debate of sorts recently.
If we all wait for the great, glorious revolution there won't be anything left.
(Derrick Jensen, author and environmental activist)
It is the artists, not the scientists, who have dealt unremittingly with the problems of limits.
(Wendell Berry, writer and farmer)
Don't cap our future.
(American Farm Bureau)
We do not need you.
(John Galt, character in Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand)
Thomas: “Don't let's spoil everything, we've only just met.”
Jane: “No, we haven't met. You've never seen me.”
(the movie “Blow Up,” 1966)
What are the costs (complete) of changing U.S. energy practices?
We are familiar with the various direct costs—a barrel of oil for example—but what about the costs not reflected in energy prices? These are referred to as the hidden or indirect costs.
The National Academies' National Research Council was asked by Congress to provide an in-depth report on energy costs that offers a more complete picture. Many of these indirect costs were health or environmental related.
Two scientists from California suggest we just might be able to have 100 percent clean energy in 20 years. What!
Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi have said that if the planet were only powered by wind, water, and solar—with no fossil fuel or biomass combustion—projected global power demand in 20 years would be less than what is projected by using fossil fuels.
Yes, but what about that pesky political will? Well that's where we all may come in. Jacobson and Delucchi have an intriguing technical and scientific proposition that ought to be looked at closely. See
I've made so many mistakes.
(James Jesus Angleton, one time chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff)
The article I read yesterday asked the question, would Obama end up being a “failed” war president or the “prince” of peace? We will of course eventually find out how much prince, how much peace, and how much failure there is in our current president.
The stupidity of a remarkable number in the U.S. Congress keeps on giving.
Four congressmen, two from Arizona and two from the center of enlightenment, Georgia and North Carolina, are concerned because Muslims are lobbying Congress. What! Muslim-Americans want to participate in our political system?
Dean Obeidallah, an Arab-American comedian, offers his strategy to control America.
This remarkable talent is from the Ukraine. According to some of the comments a few of the drawings refer to soldiers who never returned from wars, including the struggle against the Nazis.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's swimming naked.
(Warren E. Buffett)
I think the answer is we all are swimming naked now, even the plutocrats.
What if the “lumpenproleteriat” decided it was time for piano wire and meat hooks and took the elevator up to the corporate penthouse suite? No, it would not be glorious, romantic or bring about the American utopia, anything but. Yet what are we stumbling toward right now?
