Posts Tagged ‘ global warming ’

Climate and the Fate of Humanity

Dec 28th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics, Technology
L: [Phone rings. It’s Doug Casey, whose gravelly, "Lobo, let’s talk!" always makes me smile.] Hi Doug! What’s on your mind? Doug: Global warming. People like my fanatical neighbors here in Aspen seem perfectly willing to undo centuries of progress because they are completely delusional about global warming. The People’s Republic ...read more

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What Does Global Warming Have to Do with Energy Stocks?

Dec 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured
Over the last couple of years, consideration of the effect of climate change has become increasingly important in analyzing a company or market trend — particularly in the energy sector. For example, I have a very bearish view on the thermal coal producers in North America and it’s due exclusively ...read more

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Global Warming Is a Politcal Science

Dec 10th, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured
Last week, the global warming movement crashed, along with its holier-than-thou "only we can save the world" aura of empirical certitude. It's more like "political" science now — literally — and there are 3,000 e-mails to prove it. Down with the ship went the last semblance of unblinking, unthinking willingness ...read more

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Cap and Trade

Jun 20th, 2008 | By | Category: Energy
I received an e-mail from a Washington, D.C. advocacy group urging me to urge my U.S. Senators to “support the Climate Security Act.” Climate security? This is legislation to set up emissions trading or a “Cap & Trade” system for carbon-based energy supplies. Basically, the government sets up a national limit ...read more

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Carbo-geddon, Part 1.5

Dec 14th, 2007 | By | Category: Energy
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE CONCLUSION to a two-parter, but as is often the case with multi-part series’ I write for Whiskey & Gunpowder, I got quite a variety of responses to the first installment. And the nature of these compelled me to write a “tweener” to address ...read more

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Carbo-geddon, Part I

Nov 30th, 2007 | By | Category: Energy
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream… At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines. — Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run” THREE RECENT HAPPENINGS HAVE GOT ME THINKING yet again about America’s energy policies, our “carbon footprint,” and the inextricable link between ...read more

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Thanks, Global Warming!

Nov 2nd, 2007 | By | Category: Commodities, Energy
“The sea route running along the Arctic coastline of North America, normally clogged with thick ice — is nearly ice free for the first time since records began.” — “Northwest Passage Is Now Plain Sailing,” Guardian Unlimited, Aug. 28 IT STARTED WITH A RUSSIAN EXPEDITION planting the Russian flag in a polar ...read more

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Meat and Crusaders

Mar 22nd, 2007 | By | Category: Commodities, Energy, Oil
Before I get started today, I want to take a few moments to address some reader feedback to my last essay, "A Clear and Pheasant Danger." First, I give a heartfelt thanks to those who wrote in with kudos and "attaboys." It's always nice to hear from those who've been persuaded, ...read more

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7 Forces That Will Drive Uranium to $100 Per Pound in 2007

Feb 7th, 2007 | By | Category: Energy
A six-week long stalemate on the spot price of uranium has finally broken, with the price of the metal ticking up $3 to $75 per pound, according to Ux Consulting. Uranium investors have been holding their collective breath, waiting to see if uranium's recent plateau was a peak. The answer ...read more

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