Rud Istvan is CEO of Third Stream Bioscience, and the principal of NanoCarbons LLC. Rud was previously a Motorola SVP, General Manager of Future Businesses, and Director of its Corporate Strategy Offices. Prior to Motorola he was a senior partner at BCG.

Rud holds a BA summa, JD, and MBA from Harvard University. He is a named inventor on 14 issued patents. He previously published Gaia’s Limits (on global carrying capacity) and The Arts of Truth (on ‘official’ misinformation, including in energy, climate, healthcare, public health, public education, and other important policy topics).

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Blowing Smoke
• Foreword
Introduction
Peak Oil
• IEA Fictions*
• Oil isn't the next Revolution*
• Peeking at Peaks
• Much Ado about Nothing
• How not to stop KXL
• This Rock could Not power the World
• No Fracking Way
• Reserve Reservations
• Matryoshka Reserves
Energy Alternatives
• Wishful Thinking
• Bugs, Roots, and Biofuels
• Salvation by Swamp
• Clean Coal*
• Tilting at Windmills
• Solar Sunset
• California Dreaming
• Ice that Burns
• Hydrogen Hype
• Going Nuclear
Climate Change
• Fire and Ice
• Cause and Effect
• Let's Play Hockey Again*
• A High Stick Foul*
• Models all the way Down
• Humidity is still Wet
• Cloudy Clouds
• When Data Isn’t
• An Awkward Pause
• Hiding the Hiatus
• Blowing Smoke
• Missing Heat
• Unsettling Science
• Sensitive Uncertainty
CAGW
• CAGw
• Climatastrosophistry
• False Alarms
• Credibility Conundrums
• Carbon Pollution
• Snows of Kilimanjaro
• Extreme Extremes
• Himalayan Glaciers
• Pseudo Precision
• By Land or by Sea*
• Tipping Points*
• Polar Bears
• No Bodies*
• Northwest Passage
• Sandy was Weather
• Good Bad News*
• Shell Games*
• Burning Nonscience
• Greenhouse Effects
• Last Cup of Coffee
• Somerset Levels