Climate & Energy

Destructive Storms are Sucking Financial Resources Dry

A warming world means more destructive storms 0
Posted 9 Jun 2009 8:32 AM By Lester Brown
Elevated global temperatures bring a number of threats, including rising seas and more crop-withering heat waves. Higher surface water temperatures in the tropical oceans also provide more energy to drive tropical storm systems, leading to more-destructive hurricanes and typhoons. The combination of rising seas, more powerful storms, and stronger storm surges can be devastating.
PLUS! why the allocations do not undermine energy efficiency efforts

Everything you wanted to know about Waxman-Markey allocations 0
Posted 8 Jun 2009 12:11 PM By Joseph Romm
Memo to media

No, Washington Times: New Brookings study finds strong climate action would NOT hurt the economy 1
Posted 9 Jun 2009 8:06 AM By Joseph Romm
The right wing likes to take economic analyses that don't model the House clean energy and climate bill and then misrepresent the results to attack the bill. The latest hit job is by The Washington Times, which abuses a new study by Brookings in a piece whose headline is exactly backwards.
Five Stages of Climate Grief

Anti-science conservatives are stuck in denial; for climate science activists, the reverse is true 1
Posted 8 Jun 2009 5:32 AM By Joseph Romm
Let's get a move on here

Sierra Club, MoveOn call on House leaders to strengthen climate bill 1
Posted 9 Jun 2009 9:12 AM By Kate Sheppard
The Sierra Club, MoveOn, and other green and progressive groups have sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) asking her to work to strengthen the American Clean Energy and Security Act when it moves to the House floor.
An ACES up the sleeve

Climate bill would be a net gain for federal budget, says CBO 1
Posted 8 Jun 2009 2:30 PM By Kate Sheppard
The Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill would be a net gain for the federal Treasury, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, bringing in $24.4 billion over 10 years.
“Let’s get this damn thing started!”

Climate envoy Todd Stern on U.S. climate action and the possibility of deal with China 0
Posted 8 Jun 2009 5:25 AM By Joseph Romm
U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern gives a glimpse into where U.S.-China negotiations are headed on climate.
Why does the much-touted climate bill look like it was stolen from the Republican playbook? 1
Posted 8 Jun 2009 8:02 AM By David Morris
When it comes to climate change policy making, the Republican Party can justly claim a major victory for its philosophy. We may have a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, but the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 recently passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is very much a Republican bill characterized by a paucity of sticks and a plethora of carrots.
Meat or nothing

While the West will have to eat less meat, Africa might have to eat more 0
Posted 5 Jun 2009 7:50 AM By Tom Laskawy
Obama on climate action: “Tough decisions and… concrete actions” 0
Posted 5 Jun 2009 2:55 PM By Joseph Romm