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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Unit 1 | |
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Can the United States Continue to Rely on Oil as a Major Source of Energy? | |
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Yes: from "U.S. Oil Supplies Are Not at Risk," USA Today Magazine (November 2007) | |
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No: from "The Gospel According to Matthew," Texas Monthly (February 2008) | |
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Is It Realistic for the united States to Move Toward Greater Energy Independence? | |
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Yes: from Testimony on "The Geopolitical Implications of Rising Oil Dependence and Global Warming" before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (April 18, 2007) | |
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No: from "The Seven Myths of Energy Independence," Mother Jones (May/June 2008) | |
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Should Cars Be More Efficient. | |
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Yes: from "CAFE Standards," Testimony before Committee on Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation (March 6, 2007) | |
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No: from "Why the Government's CAFE Standards for Fuel Efficiency Should be Repealed, Not Increased," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #1458 (July 11, 2001) | |
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Should the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Be Opened to Oil Drilling? | |
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Yes: from "To Drill or Not to Drill?" Independent Review (Fall 2001) | |
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No: from ANWR Minority Views from Senate Energy Committee (October 24th, 2005) | |
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Should Utilities Burn More Coal? | |
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Yes: from "Clean Coal," Testimony before the Senate Finance Committee (April 26, 2007) | |
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No: from "Coal Rush!" World Watch (January/February 2007) | |
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Global Warming | |
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Are Global Warming Facts Too Uncertain to Guide Government Policy? | |
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Yes: from "How Serious Is the Global Warming Threat?" Society (September 2007) | |
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No: from Testimony on "Questions Surrounding the �Hockey Stick' Temperature Studies: Implications for Climate Change Assessments," before the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives (July 27, 2006) | |
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Is Global Warming Skepticism Just Smoke and Mirrors? | |
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Yes: Union of Concerned Scientists, from "Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science," http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/exxonmobil-smoke-mirrors-hot.html (January 2007) | |
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No: from "Liberal �Scientists' Lead Jihad Against Global-Warming Skeptics," Human Events, http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,05908.cfm or http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20573 (may 8, 2007) | |
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Are the Potential Costs of Global Warming Too High to Ignore? | |
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Yes: from "Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, Executive Summary," http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm (october 30, 2006) | |
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No: from "'Global Warming' Scare-Mongering Revisited," National Observer (Autumn 2007) | |
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Can Carbon Trading Help Control Carbon Emissions? | |
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Yes: from "Carbon Trading," Electric Perspectives (September/October 2005) | |
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No: from "Trading Away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of �Free Market Environmentalism,'" Dollars & Sense (March/April 1996) | |
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Is Carbon Capture Technology Ready to Limit Carbon Emissions? | |
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Yes: from "Carbon Capture and Sequestration," Testimony before the Committee on House Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality (March 6, 2007) | |
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No: from "Carbon Capture & Storage: Blue-Sky Technology or Just Blowing Smoke?" Environmental Health Perspectives (November 2007) | |
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Is Geoemgineering" a Possible Answer to Global Warming? | |
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Yes: from "Feasibility of Cooling the Earth with a Cloud of Small Spacecraft near the Inner Lagrange Point (L1)," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (November 14, 2006) | |
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No: from "The Climate Engineers," Wilson Quarterly (Spring 2007) | |
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Unit 3 | |
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Does Nuclear Power Need GovernmentHelp? | |
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Yes: from "Nuclear Power," Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology Hearing on Opportunities and Challenges for Nuclear Power (April 23, 2008) | |
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No: from Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology Hearing on Opportunities and Challenges for Nuclear Power (April 23, 2008) | |
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Should the United States Continue to Focus Plans for Permanent Nuclear Waste Disposal Exclusively at Yucca Mountain? | |
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Yes: from Recommendation by the Secretary of Energy Regarding the Suitability of the Yucca Mountain Site (February 2002) | |
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No: from "A Gift to Terrorists?" Earth Island Journal (Winter 2002-2003) | |
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Should the United States Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel? | |
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Yes: from Statement before the House Committee on Science, energy Subcommittee, Hearing on Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing (June 16, 2005) | |
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No: from "Rethinking Nuclear Fuel Recyclink," Scientific American (May 2008) | |
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Alternative Energy Sources | |
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Is Wind Power Green? | |
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Yes: from "Whither Wind?" Orion (September-October 2006) | |
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No: from "Wayward Wind," Speech Given in the Township of Perry, near Silver Lake, Wyoming County, New York (June 19, 2006) | |
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Do Biofuels Enhance Energy Security? | |
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Yes: from Testimony before Committee on Senate Energy and Natural Resources (April 12, 2007) | |
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No: from "Ethanol: Train Wreck Ahead," Issues in Science and Technology (Fall 2007) | |
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Can Hydropower Play a Role in Preventing Climate Change? | |
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Yes: from "The Issue of Greenhouse Gases from Hydroelectric Reservoirs: From Boreal to Tropical Regions," United Nations Symposium on Hydropower and Sustainable Development, Beijing, china (October 27-29, 2004) | |
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No: from "Hydropower: Not the Answer to Preventing Climate Change," (http://www.americanrivers.org) (2007) | |
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Will Hydrogen Replace Fossil Fuels for Cars? | |
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Yes: from "Fueling the Future: The Road to the Hydrogen Economy," Statement Presented to the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Research and Subcommittee on Energy, U.S. House of Representatives (July 20, 2005) | |
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No: from "Warning: The Hydrogen Economy May be More Distant Than It Appears," Popular Science (January 2005) | |
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Is There Any Such Thing as "Free Energy"? | |
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Yes: from "Introduction to Zero Point Energy," Infinite Energy, http://www.integrityresearchinstitute.org/ (July/August 2007) | |
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No: from Voodoo Science (Oxford University Press, 2000) | |
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Contributors | |