Power Surge: Heat-Related Deaths and Human Ingenuity
On this episode Alex and Steffen talk about the most recent presidential attack on opponents of the White House’s climate action plan, a new report by the EU commission on devastating climate damage i...
4 Jul 201417min
Power Surge: Signs of Life, “Risky Business,” the EPA, and the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
On this Episode Alex and Steffen talk about a newly proposed pipeline from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota to a storage hub in Oklahoma, the recent SCOTUS ruling on the EPA rules for emissi...
4 Jul 201416min
Power Surge: Former Treasury Sec. Paulson Claims We’re Facing a Catastrophic “Climate Bubble”
On this episode Alex and Steffen discuss the recent article by former Bush Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson. Paulson sees similarities between what he thinks to be a climate crisis and the 2008...
4 Jul 201420min
Al Gore and Rolling Stone Need to Issue a Public Apology for Journalistic Fraud
On this episode I am joined again by Steffen Henne to talk about Al Gore’s recent article in Rolling Stone Online in which he misleads readers about the use and effects of wind and solar power in Germ...
4 Jul 201423min
Power Surge: Rising Fossil Fuels and a Decline in Presidential Conduct
On today’s Power Surge, Steffen Henne and I talk about rising oil demand in the US, the record growth of coal use in the world, and a recent graduation speech by President Obama at UC Irvine in which ...
4 Jul 201417min
Power Surge: Japan Keeps the Lights On with Fossil Fuel Imports, Canada Wants to Build More Pipelines for Oil Sands Resources, American Lung Association Propaganda
On this episode Alex and Steffen talk about the additional fossil fuel imports Japan relies on after shutting down most of its nuclear capacity after the Fukushima tsunami, Canada’s preliminary approv...
4 Jul 201410min
Power Surge: India Identifies the Green Threat to Progress, Another Attack by Regulation from the EPA
On this episode Alex and Steffen discuss a leaked report by the Indian spy service that accuses organizations like Greenpeace to use foreign funds to block industrial progress in the country, the comm...
4 Jul 201418min
Power Surge: Paul Krugman, Ayn Rand, and Climate Change
On today’s Power Surge, Steffen Henne and I discuss Paul Krugman’s new piece on climate change, which begins this way: Here are three things we know about man-made global warming. First, the consequen...
4 Jul 201433min
