<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Rumblings have started.]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Tom Philpott http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:55:14 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/1 What's the rush?

2106. Wow. That's good stuff.

]]> What's the rush?

2106. Wow. That's good stuff.

]]> Comment #2 by Corey McKrill http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:00:40 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/2 "Sources"

Almost sounds vaguely Yes Men-ish ...

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]]> "Sources"

Almost sounds vaguely Yes Men-ish ...

Grist's InterActivist ... creating a one-of-a-kind portrait of on-the-ground activism.

]]> Comment #3 by Tod http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:35:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/3 100 Years of Solitude?

I'm sure we'll all be amazed by whatever comes out.

"Because the world doesn't matter if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch

]]> 100 Years of Solitude?

I'm sure we'll all be amazed by whatever comes out.

"Because the world doesn't matter if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch

]]> Comment #4 by GRLCowan http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:44:19 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/4 Sucking CO2 would not be tech widgets' province

It would be done by covering square miles of desert with quicklime, and occasionally taking it up and calcining it. The pure CO2 from the calciner could, perhaps, be frozen in lumps big enough to sink to the bottom of the Pacific, and sunk there, or made into nuclear gasoline, or combined with the mineral serpentinite.

As a public works project, correcting the atmosphere's surfeit of CO2 isn't out of reach.

--- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen fan
How internal combustion gains nuclear cachet

]]> Sucking CO2 would not be tech widgets' province

It would be done by covering square miles of desert with quicklime, and occasionally taking it up and calcining it. The pure CO2 from the calciner could, perhaps, be frozen in lumps big enough to sink to the bottom of the Pacific, and sunk there, or made into nuclear gasoline, or combined with the mineral serpentinite.

As a public works project, correcting the atmosphere's surfeit of CO2 isn't out of reach.

--- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen fan
How internal combustion gains nuclear cachet

]]> Comment #5 by Laurence Aurbach http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:47:19 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/5 Promise Breaker

The current administration already reneged once on a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Is anyone going to be suckered into a bait-and-switch a second time?

In addition, this may well be a delaying tactic designed to convince states to hold off on substantive action until the feds come riding to the rescue. After enough years have passed, a convenient pretext will be worked up to renege yet again.

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The current administration already reneged once on a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Is anyone going to be suckered into a bait-and-switch a second time?

In addition, this may well be a delaying tactic designed to convince states to hold off on substantive action until the feds come riding to the rescue. After enough years have passed, a convenient pretext will be worked up to renege yet again.

]]> Comment #6 by GreenEngineer http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:24:03 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/6 hmmm

The Bush administration plans to announce as early as next week a goal of stabilizing carbon dioxide levels in the global atmosphere at 450 parts per million by the year 2106, congressional and non-government sources told Platts Wednesday.

I can't find the link right now, but I'm pretty sure that this had its origins in an article in The Onion.  Of course, The Onion really has become one of the more reliable news sources in recent times.

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The Bush administration plans to announce as early as next week a goal of stabilizing carbon dioxide levels in the global atmosphere at 450 parts per million by the year 2106, congressional and non-government sources told Platts Wednesday.

I can't find the link right now, but I'm pretty sure that this had its origins in an article in The Onion.  Of course, The Onion really has become one of the more reliable news sources in recent times.

]]> Comment #7 by tbelford http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:43:41 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/7 More "evidence" from Time mag

What do you make of this passage in 9/4 Time magazine?

Previewing the final quarter of Bush's presidency, officials disclosed to Time that the Administration is formulating a huge energy initiative designed to "change the whole nature of the discussion" and challenge the Republican Party, Democrats, the oil and electricity industries, and environmentalists. An  adviser said Bush's views about global warming had evolved. "Only Nixon could go to China, and only Bush and Cheney -- two oilmen -- can bring all these parties kicking and screaming to the table," the adviser said.

Tom Belford TheAgitator.net

]]> More "evidence" from Time mag

What do you make of this passage in 9/4 Time magazine?

Previewing the final quarter of Bush's presidency, officials disclosed to Time that the Administration is formulating a huge energy initiative designed to "change the whole nature of the discussion" and challenge the Republican Party, Democrats, the oil and electricity industries, and environmentalists. An  adviser said Bush's views about global warming had evolved. "Only Nixon could go to China, and only Bush and Cheney -- two oilmen -- can bring all these parties kicking and screaming to the table," the adviser said.

Tom Belford TheAgitator.net

]]> Comment #8 by Laurence Aurbach http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/ Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:59:59 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/new-bush-climate-policy-on-the-way/8 SOU Timing

From another recent article:

The White House... did not deny that a change of policy was on its way. Sources say that the most likely moment is the President's State of the Union address in January.

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From another recent article:

The White House... did not deny that a change of policy was on its way. Sources say that the most likely moment is the President's State of the Union address in January.

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