Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles or tell us about other current items of interest in the comment thread below.
An oilman’s bet against oil
Washington Post, Steven Mufson, 7.22.08
T. Boone Pickens has played a lot of odd roles over the years. There was the geologist who made most of his early money by snapping up the stock of big, undervalued oil and gas companies, a practice known as “drilling on Wall Street.” The wealthy corporate raider who said he was defending the rights of ordinary shareholders. And, recently, the influential TV commentator on oil prices who places enormous and mostly lucrative bets on where those prices are going.
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Costs of Climate Change, State-by-state: Billions, Says New Report
Science Daily, 7.23.08
Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of Maryland’s Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are likely to endure.
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Report: Climate change could clobber Colo. Skiing
Denver Business Journal, Mark Harden, 7.23.08
Global climate change is already having an impact on Colorado’s $2 billion ski industry and could shorten the ski season by as much as 30 days if current trends continue, according to a report released Wednesday by the Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Democrats against drilling
Wall Street Journal, 7.24.08
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other liberal leaders on Capitol Hill are gripped by cold-sweat terror. If they permit a vote on offshore drilling, they know they will lose when Blue Dogs and oil-patch Democrats defect to the GOP position of increasing domestic energy production. So the last failsafe is to shut down Congress.
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What part of ‘drill now’ do they not understand?
Human Events, A.W.R. Hawkins, 7.24.08
Out here in West Texas we love our guns, we support our troops, and we treasure our freedom. We are an independent bunch and — pardon me, Senator Obama — fiercely but not bitterly so. We are proud to have our own things to do with as we choose to, as free people of the freest nation in the history of the world.
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Avoiding deforestation to limit climate change ‘cheap and practical’
Environment News Service, 7.23.08
Wealthy nations could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally by paying landowners in developing nations not to clear forested land for agriculture, finds a new study by a research team from Austria, Brazil and the United States.
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