Tag: Clean Coal

This week we shall explore misconceptions about science generally, and then take a few specific cases for further examination.  There are a few concepts that are essential to understand about what makes science work, and why it is the best tool that we have to understand the natural world, and to use science to improve the human condition.

There are two fundamental large scale misconceptions about science, and we shall treat them first.  Then there are an almost unlimited supply of what I call false science, meaning that scientific terms and logic based on incorrect premises are used in attempts by those who actually know better to influence people.  The fundamental misconceptions are sort of to be expected from folks who are not educated in science, but he false science is used by nefarious persons to influence those not versed in real science, usually for a monetary or a social goal or goals.  Please let us explore.

There is a battle going on for the hearts and minds of Americans, regarding our Energy Future.

Given the well-funded nature of this Ad Campaign — we probably shouldn’t expect any changes in our “Energy Economics” Future, anytime soon.

The Breaking Point

from AmericanSolutions  188 Videos



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

“Stop the National Energy Tax.”

 — Paid for by American Solutions for Winning the Future.

Who or What is ASWF ???

Sounds harmless, enough …

First Rule of effective Public Relations Branding:

Do No Harm … and sound innocuous.

Mine Explosion Survivor Interview

copyright © 2010 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

Citizens heard the news.  In West Virginia, twenty-five people perished.  Hard-working miners left their homes and loved ones, never to return again.  Upper Big Branch, a colliery owned and operated by the Massey Energy Company exploded from within.  The cavern, filled with gas, was often thought to be a death trap.  Family, friends, and familiars knew this, as did government officials.  Actually, any American who cares to be cognizant of the countless considerations associated with coal mining could have predicted what occurred only days ago.  Yet, most choose not to think of their own culpability in the most recent deaths.  Nor do our countrymen and women contemplate the constant infirmity and harm they do to our fellow humans.  We are busy.

Original article, by Joe Mowrey and sub-titled Which Candidate Supports Petraeus, the Bailout, the Death Penalty, Nuclear Power, the Occupation, the Cuban Embargo …, via counterpunch.com.

Ooooh…a guessing game. I wonder who it could be? Hmmmm?  Let’s find out below the fold!