Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and
other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.
AGW denialism has been manufactured by a generation - long campaign of deliberate deceit, funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and
other fossil fuel corporations that collectively rake in one billion dollars per day in profit from the ongoing business - as - usual consumption of their destructive products.
Not exact matches
What that sciencey - sounding gibberish about «unproved variables» means is that you don't want to see trillions of dollars in wealth shift from the
fossil fuel corporations to
other sectors of the industrial economy, therefore, anthropogenic global warming can not be true.
Reducing
fossil fuel use won't «shrink the economy» — quite the opposite — but it will result in the transfer of trillions of dollars in investments, capital and profits from the
fossil fuel corporations to
other sectors of the industrial economy.
1 Executive Summary 2 Scope of the Report 3 The Case for Hydrogen 3.1 The Drive for Clean Energy 3.2 The Uniqueness of Hydrogen 3.3 Hydrogen's Safety Record 4 Hydrogen
Fuel Cells 4.1 Proton Exchange Membrane
Fuel Cell 4.2
Fuel Cells and Batteries 4.3
Fuel Cell Systems Durability 4.4
Fuel Cell Vehicles 5 Hydrogen
Fueling Infrastructure 5.1 Hydrogen Station Hardware 5.2 Hydrogen Compression and Storage 5.3 Hydrogen
Fueling 5.4 Hydrogen Station Capacity 6 Hydrogen
Fueling Station Types 6.1 Retail vs. Non-Retail Stations 6.1.1 Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.1.2 Non-Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.2 Mobile Hydrogen Stations 6.2.1 Honda's Smart Hydrogen Station 6.2.2 Nel Hydrogen's RotoLyzer 6.2.3
Others 7 Hydrogen
Fueling Protocols 7.1 SAE J2601 7.2 Related Standards 7.3
Fueling Protocols vs. Vehicle Charging 7.4 SAE J2601 vs. SAE J1772 7.5 Ionic Compression 8 Hydrogen Station Rollout Strategy 8.1 Traditional Approaches 8.2 Current Approach 8.3 Factors Impacting Rollouts 8.4 Production and Distribution Scenarios 8.5 Reliability Issues 9 Sources of Hydrogen 9.1
Fossil Fuels 9.2 Renewable Sources 10 Methods of Hydrogen Production 10.1 Production from Non-Renewable Sources 10.1.1 Steam Reforming of Natural Gas 10.1.2 Coal Gasification 10.2 Production from Renewable Sources 10.2.1 Electrolysis 10.2.2 Biomass Gasification 11 Hydrogen Production Scenarios 11.1 Centralized Hydrogen Production 11.2 On - Site Hydrogen Production 11.2.1 On - site Electrolysis 11.2.2 On - Site Steam Methane Reforming 12 Hydrogen Delivery 12.1 Hydrogen Tube Trailers 12.2 Tanker Trucks 12.3 Pipeline Delivery 12.4 Railcars and Barges 13 Hydrogen Stations Cost Factors 13.1 Capital Expenditures 13.2 Operating Expenditures 14 Hydrogen Station Deployments 14.1 Asia - Pacific 14.1.1 Japan 14.1.2 Korea 14.1.3 China 14.1.4 Rest of Asia - Pacific 14.2 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 14.2.1 Germany 14.2.2 The U.K. 14.2.3 Nordic Region 14.2.4 Rest of EMEA 14.3 Americas 14.3.1 U.S. West Coast 14.3.2 U.S. East Coast 14.3.3 Canada 14.3.4 Latin America 15 Selected Vendors 15.1 Air Liquide 15.2 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 15.3 Ballard Power Systems 15.4 FirstElement
Fuel Inc. 15.5 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 15.6 Hydrogenics
Corporation 15.7 The Linde Group 15.8 Nel Hydrogen 15.9 Nuvera
Fuel Cells 15.10 Praxair 15.11 Proton OnSite / SunHydro 15.11.1 Proton Onsite 15.11.2 SunHydro 16 Market Forecasts 16.1 Overview 16.2 Global Hydrogen Station Market 16.2.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.2.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.2.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.3 Asia - Pacific Hydrogen Station Market 16.3.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.3.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.3.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.4 Europe, Middle East and Africa 16.4.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.4.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.4.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.5 Americas 16.5.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.5.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.5.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 17 Conclusions 17.1 Hydrogen as a
Fuel 17.2 Rollout of
Fuel Cell Vehicles 17.3 Hydrogen Station Deployments 17.4 Funding Requirements 17.5 Customer Experience 17.6
Other Findings
Then, there are the «bad guys» — oil and gas companies, mining
corporations, electricity generators and
other fossil fuel - based industries, eagerly promoting their green credentials.
The Koch Brothers» supposed «free market» political activities often line up with the financial interests of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately held
corporation in the United States and a major
fossil fuel conglomerate (invested in coal, oil, and natural gas among many
other sectors).
On the recent Do the Math tour, Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, author Naomi Klein and
other speakers and a team of organizers launched a campaign calling on churches, colleges, and
others to divest their stock portfolios of investments in
fossil fuel corporations — as was done in the the 1970s and 1980s as part of delegitimizing the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Dismukes runs Acadian Consulting, whose clients include Duke Energy, NRG Energy, CLECO
Corporation, Sempra Energy, along with several
other utility and
fossil fuel entities.
So far, investors have divested about $ 3.4 trillion from the
fossil fuel industry, and the total is growing each week, as major investors like the Rockefeller Family Fund divest from Exxon Mobil and
other dirty - energy
corporations.
McKibben is considered the father of the «divestment» movement — defined as applying pressure on universities and
corporations to end all investments in
fossil fuel companies or
other industries that contribute significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Except of course for the
fossil fuel corporations, who will see their hundreds of billions of dollars in profits shift to
other sectors of the economy.
(Of course, it will cause a massive transfer of wealth from the
fossil fuel industry to
other sectors of the economy, but that's not the same thing as a «massive global Depression», as the
fossil fuel corporations would have us believe.)