var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/17/en-allemagne-un-futur-independant/’,size:‘large’} En Allemagne, l’avenir des bourgs: énergétiquement indépendant.
Pendant que tout le monde attende action des gouvernements nationaux, les allemands ont pris les affaires en main.
Entries Tagged as 'Global Warming'
En Allemagne, un futur indépendant
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, Environment, Europe, Global Warming
Global-Warming Deniers
February 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Humor, Politics, Science
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/global-warming-deniers/’,size:‘large’} Every time I hear climate-change skeptics or global-warming deniers speak, I think of this cartoon that I saw online.
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The Death of Food
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Europe, Food, Global Warming, Globalization, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/08/the-death-of-food/’,size:‘large’} French traditional cheeses dying out? Say it ain’t so!
Still another victim of globalization.
Don’t get me wrong: globalization has its perks, and I’m not going to be rioting at G8 or WTO conferences anytime in the foreseeable future, but Big Government, Big Ag, and supermarkets are killing small farms and diversity […]
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Global Warming
December 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics, Science, Technology
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/17/global-warming/’,size:‘large’} Stewart Brand classifies the viewpoints on climate change into four groups: denialists, skeptics, warners, and calamatists. I fall somewhere between the second and third:
SKEPTICS This group is most interested in the limitations of climate science so far: they like to examine in detail the contradictions and shortcomings in climate data […]
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Reading List
December 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Anti-Semitism, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Europe, Global Warming, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Personal, Politics, Religion, Science, Technology, The Middle East, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/12/reading-list/’,size:‘large’} It seems that I have a lot of reading for the next few days. These articles look interesting:
From Foreign Policy:
Why is the United States letting jihadists have free reign online?
How Israelis see Barack Obama
How Osama bin Laden escaped Tora Bora while surrounded
From the Christian Science Monitor:
Are more Americans are […]
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Angry Young Men
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Finance, Global Warming, Globalization, Liberal Pundits, Politics, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/10/07/angry-young-men/’,size:‘large’} Thomas Friedman is starting to understand why my generation is so upset:
I am a 56-year-old baby boomer, and looking around today it’s very clear that my generation had it easy: We grew up in the shadow of just one bomb — the nuclear bomb…
But there are now two other bombs […]
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Why My Generation is Pissed Off
June 26th, 2008 · 27 Comments · Afghanistan, Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Entertainment, Environment, Essays, Global Warming, Globalization, Iraq, Islam, Journalism, Law, Media, Oil, Personal, Politics, Technology, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/06/26/why-my-generation-is-pissed-off/’,size:‘large’} Fourth in a series of essays
I’m 27 years old. The more I read the headlines every day, the angrier I become. The more I see my peers discussing the headlines of the day on popular Internet forums like Fark.com, the angrier I see them become.
At first I thought that this is the […]
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Where’s the Vision?
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, China, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Globalization, Islam, Israel, Liberal Pundits, Oil, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/06/26/wheres-the-vision/’,size:‘large’} Former Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart also realizes the challenge that the United States is facing:
Noting the power of “custom and fear,” and “of orthodoxy and of complacency,” [Arthur] Schlesinger believed that “the subversion of old ideas by the changing environment” would give a new leader the best chance to […]
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Water Wars
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Oil, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/06/09/water-wars/’,size:‘large’} The cause of many conflicts in the future will not be oil; it will be water.
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Straight Talk
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Dating, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Globalization, Oil, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/05/19/straight-talk/’,size:‘large’} Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is the true straight-talker:
Pitching his message to Oregon’s environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to “lead by example” on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much […]
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Thinking Only With Their Wallets
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Finance, Global Warming, Oil, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/05/12/thinking-only-with-their-wallets/’,size:‘large’} As a result of the skyrocketing price of oil, more Americans are now using public transportation and buying smaller cars. If only they had done so years ago. In related news, Paul Krugman warns that the high price of oil is here to stay: The fundamentals are sound, and […]
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Climate Change
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Britain, Environment, Europe, Global Warming, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/02/27/climate-change/’,size:‘large’} There seems to be a consensus that the planet’s climate is changing. But the real question is whether we will be facing global warming or global cooling.
I think it will be a combination of both. What many people do not realize is that “climate change” is more accurate than […]
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Who Saved the Electric Car?
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Israel, Oil, Politics, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/01/23/who-saved-the-electric-car/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Israel is a country that, like the United States, depends on other countries for its energy needs even though some of those nations can be hostile. So, what is the Jewish State doing? It is promoting electric cars. To whomever the next U.S. president will be: Pay attention!
(On a […]
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Realistic Pessimism
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Business, China, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Global Warming, Iraq, Islam, Oil, Politics, Russia
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/01/22/realistic-pessimism/’,size:‘large’} Just in case my readers have not realized how worried I am about the future of the United States, let me add one additional thought by Andrew Sullivan:
My own view is that America’s crisis is a very deep one. The markets are reflecting the fact that seven years of […]
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Bali Did Nothing
December 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Energy, Global Warming, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/12/17/bali-did-nothing/’,size:‘large’} The recent climate change conference in Bali did nothing:
The world’s faltering effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions got a new lease on life on Saturday, as delegates from 187 countries agreed to negotiate a new accord over the next two years — pushing the crucial debates about United States […]
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