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How to Answer to a Global Warming Skeptic
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Renewable Energy Basics
The United States currently relies heavily on coal, oil, and natural gas for its energy. Fossil fuels are nonrenewable, that is, they draw on finite resources that will eventually dwindle, becoming too expensive or too environmentally damaging to retrieve. In contrast, renewable energy resources—such as wind and solar energy—are constantly replenished and will never run out.
Most renewable energy comes either directly or indirectly from the sun. Sunlight, or solar energy , can be used directly for heating and lighting homes and other buildings, for generating electricity, and for hot water heating, solar cooling, and a variety of commercial and industrial uses.
The sun's heat also drives the winds, whose energy is captured with wind turbines . Then, the winds and the sun's heat cause water to evaporate. When this water vapor turns into rain or snow and flows downhill into rivers or streams, its energy can be captured using hydropower.
Along with the rain and snow, sunlight causes plants to grow. The organic matter that makes up those plants is known as biomass. Biomass can be used to produce electricity, transportation fuels, or chemicals. The use of biomass for any of these purposes is called biomass energy .
Not all renewable energy resources come from the sun. Geothermal energy taps the Earth's internal heat for a variety of uses, including electric power production, and the heating and cooling of buildings. And the energy of the ocean's tides comes from the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun upon the Earth.
In fact, ocean energy comes from a number of sources. In addition to tidal energy, there's the energy of the ocean's waves, which are driven by both the tides and the winds. The sun also warms the surface of the ocean more than the ocean depths, creating a temperature difference that can be used as an energy source. All these forms of ocean energy can be used to produce electricity.
IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
UKCIP (The UK Climate Impacts Programme)
USNA (The US National Assessment)
CCSP (US Climate Change Science Programe)
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How the Neo-Cons orchestrated the invasion and occupation of Iraq to address Peak Oil
ADDICTED TO OIL
by Oil Change International
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A Must See:
The Case for Businesses Going Green
by Tom Friedman
A Crude Awakening ; Who Killed the Electric Car? ; Red Dawn; Super Troopers; RAD; Goonies; The Passion of the Christ; 50 First Dates; Poltergeist; Super Size Me; Tapping Maple Ridge; An Inconvenient Truth ; The Great Warming
PBS; FRONTLINE; NOW; NOVA; C-SPAN; The Weather Channel; CNBC; Countdown; Myth Busters; Deadliest Catch; Man vs. Wild; Survivorman; Discovery Channel; History Channel; TLC; A&E; $40 a Day; 30 Minute Meals; Good Eats; Survivor; Penn State Football
Chasing the Sun; The Purpose Driven Life; Twilight in the Desert; The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism; The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century; An Inconvenient Truth; State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III; The End of the Age; Angels and Devils; The Italian Letter; The Bible
My Family; Professor of Science, Technology, & Society @ The Pennsylvania State University, Dr. James Hamilton; Chairman of the Federal Network for Sustainability , Alan Hurt (ret.); Ralph Nader; People Who Recycle; People Who Are Making a Part of the Solution; People Who Are Not Brainwashed