Originally posted in Watts Up With That (WUWT) *The worlds most view site on global warming and climate change.* Guest essay by Stephen Heins, Energy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist 28 September 2016 | By Stephen Heins, The Word Merchant While many of us have actively tried to follow the broad-based scientific discussions about climate [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [New York's Attorney General Schneiderman seems to believe that it is alright to conduct a witch hunt with one-sided transparency, which I would argue is a distorted mirror of biblical proportion. Steve] Schneiderman’s Climate Secrets What is New York’s Attorney General trying to hide? Aug. 31, 2016 12:00 a.m. ET, Wall Street Journal Editorial When [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [For an example of a certain amount of media bias, you should do a Google search for "recent EPA Colorado spill" and "Johns Hopkins fracking study." Yes, there was a recent EPA Colorado spill; and, no, there is no real evidence about fracking and headaches in Johns Hopkins recent study. The differences between the [...]
Though Piece by Stephen Heins ["It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with an ignorant person." Bill Murray Sorry to say, but Steve Hanley's opinion piece comes very close to displaying a total ignorance on the subject of Natural Gas and Fracking. One can't [...]
Thought piece by Stephen Heins [Where is Al Gore, who should respond to this story? Where is media coverage, including the environmental media, who also should respond to this ruling? This may be a classic example of climate change bias, especially given the coverage of the original media event. "Consensus" has no place in science, consensus only plays a [...]
Thought piece by Stephen Heins The most recent example of the manipulation of benefit/cost analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an official finding by the EPA that “greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare.” Credit: Twenty20 More regulatory [...]
3 August 2016 | By Steve Heins, The Word Merchant Many have probably heard a lot about Tesla lately, including the latest dust up with the “Autopilot” accidents. Beneath the headlines, the recently announced Tesla and Solar City merger will be an interesting experiment: Can massive government spending stimulate its own economy, without the usual worry [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [It is hard not coming to the conclusion that rhetoric and legal strategies are providing the context for any serious discussion. The RICO charges are just a manifestation. I have included links to recent stories detailing some of the planning for the "target Exxon" campaign at the bottom. Steve] Exxon Is Big Tobacco? [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins First, with so many different phrases being bandied about by the energy and environmental communities like "sustainable energy," "clean energy," and "environmentally friendly energy," I want to provide a broader meaning to clean energy: "Clean Energy" is energy efficiency, new gas/natural gas pipelines, new state of the art transmission lines, geothermal, hydro, solar, wind, [...]
Originally posted in Energy Central February 11, 2016 | By Stephen Heins [Given the fact that I wrote this presentation 10 years ago for WREC Conference in Italy, I find little of it that I am embarrassed about. The names and the companies have changed, but many of the issues are still the same. Foremost, the continuing importance of [...]
