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Question: Is it true that the polar ice caps are melting? 

Answer: Wrong. The British Antarctic Survey, working with NASA, last week confirmed ice around Antarctica has grown 100,000 sq km each decade for the past 30 years. There has been no polar ice-cap melting at all!

Long-term monitoring by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports the same: southern hemisphere ice has been expanding for decades.

As for the Arctic, wrong again.

The Arctic ice cap shrank badly during few summers after years of steady decline, but has since recovered to its 1970 levels. Satellite data from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center this week shows the Arctic hasn't had this much April ice for at least seven years.

Norway's Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center says the ice is now within the standard deviation range for 1979 to 2007. (None of the above-mentioned outfits is sponsored by Big Oil!)

Remember that Albert Gore in his movie used styrofoam and faked film to show the ice melting at what looked like an alarming rate. This was never mentioned in the film, though, and was in fact presented as real.

Since climbing on the warming wagon, Al Gore has made almost $200 million and lives exactly the opposite of the way he says he wants the rest of us to live.

Sadly, millions of innocent, unsuspecting people have been deceived by alarmists of global warming and feel guilty because of humanity's industrial development, finding a reason to consent to ever higher prices of crude oil and natural gas, to compromise on comforts, unlike those who actually initiated the myth of man caused global warming. 

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Question:Is it true that our planet suffers a global spike in temperatures because of increasing industrial carbon dioxide emissions? Jackie T., OH

Answer: Wrong. It is true the world did warm slightly between about 1979 and 1999, but even Professor David Karoly, one of the world's leading Warmers, admitted that "temperatures have dropped" since 1999 - "both in surface temperatures and in atmospheric temperatures measured from satellites." In fact, the fall in temperatures from just 2002 has already wiped out half the warming our planet experienced last century, which was only a little over one degree. (So says the latest data from Britain's Hadley Center, NASA's Aqua satellite, and the US National Climatic Data Center.) (None of the above-mentioned outfits is sponsored by Big Oil!)

Read more: Is Our Planet Warming Because of Industrial CO2 Emissions?
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Question: Are the oil companies really gouging us? If not, why does the price of gas keep going up? Mandy K., NC
Answer: They are indeed gouging. The price of a barrel of oil is set by commodity traders six months out on delivery. The price you hear the media announce every couple of minutes is not the price oil companies are paying at that time. The oil they're selling you today actually cost them much less. They have no business raising their prices in accordance with the daily price fluctuations of the oil futures market. One of the worst incidences of gouging I've ever seen is directly after Hurricane Katrina, when gas stations around the nation immediately raised their prices. This was a shame and a deep disgrace—and the nation should have rebelled at companies gouging their fellow-citizens during and after catastrophes. But our people are fat—and our government is bought off. So we have to sit back and take the shaft. For when governments team with big business, citizens have no chance except to eat salt for dessert—if that is what the pair so desires.
Read more: Are the Oil Companies Really Gouging Us?
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A discussion about thorium-based nuclear reactors took place in the British House of Lords this Thursday. It was yet another occasion to point out the positive outcome of focusing the development of nuclear technology on thorium-fueled reactors instead of keeping the less secure uranium-based reactors. For sure, controversy abounds on this theme.   
But if Her Majesty's Lords and Government can be credited with assiduously reading on Wikipedia, shall we address the views of Bill Gates? He built a fortune on practical innovation and he backs up the nuclear solution as the most appropriate to counter the energy crisis for the foreseeable future. Bill Gates calls the endeavor into solar energy production as "cute" and a "hobby" nice to have for rich people who can afford anything. But on the wider economy scale, neither solar nor ethanol biofuel can make a difference other than "rounding errors." Here's what Bill Gates mentioned about biofuels:
Read more: Thorium Reactors, Crude Oil and Rounding Errors
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Both crude and fuel prices are getting up again on these hot summer days, WTI costs $98,67 per barrel, Brent almost $118,59. Consumers and developers are trying their best to save as much as possible as well on fuel as on their money.

Read more: Using Less Fuel – Volvo's New Techniques
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Gas prices are getting up and we barely can do something about it. The only solution to take care about our money is to take care about how much fuel were using. There are several methods, like driving more slowly, carrying less package and turning the engine off by stops.

Read more: Apps to Save on Gas
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Crude Oil prices don't show any kind of recovering signs any more. A barrel of WTI costs $96.78, Brent $112.74 per barrel. Even if we have had this prices months ago, the gasoline prices in the United States are now hiking up very fast.

Read more: Gas Prices Raising – How Can We Save On Gas?
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Question: It does look like we would run out of fuel if coal and oil were formed from plant and animal fossils because they have to be in limited supply. Won't we?
A & J, VA
Answer: Coal and oil were not formed by fossils; they are not "fossil fuels." This was a theory that began one-hundred-years ago when plant leaves and a few bird feathers were found implanted in coal only a few feet below the surface of the ground. Today, the media have made that theory into a myth-fact.
However, both coal and oil are natural creations of the earth, just as are granite and other materials that make up the earth. This particular myth-fact is sponsored mainly by oil companies—who want the world to believe that we're running out of oil, because the shorter supply of oil the higher the price and greater profit they can make.
There are several great books and articles on this subject. One is called
Read more: The Entire World Has 500 Years of Crude Oil Supplies
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Don't freak out, it's not (yet) coming to you. At least directly. But make no mistake, this is (give or take) the cost that the military spends per gallon of Diesel deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq and consumed for powering the air conditioning generators. 
The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion, according to a former Pentagon official.
That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.
"When you consider the cost to deliver the fuel to some of the most isolated places in the world — escorting, command and control, medevac support — when you throw all that infrastructure in, we're talking over $20 billion," Steven Anderson tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin. Anderson is a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. David Patreaus' chief logistician in Iraq. He's now in the private sector, selling technologies branded as "energy-efficient" to the Department of Defense.
Sure, in a hostile environment, you cannot just plug the air conditioning into the mains or fill the tank of your Bradley at the next pump. Let not mention the nonsense of insulating tents randomly on the move. However, fuel and energy savings are not
Read more: $400 for a Gallon of Diesel vs. the Autonomous Land Robots