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Given the high value of the morning brew you can bet that this commodity will soon have carbon insurance percolating around somewhere.

Would You Like Carbon Insurance With That Latte? 0
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: When climate change leads to… m-u-u-u-u-u-r-der… 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Alfred Hitchcock filled his movies with suspense by picking some object of life-or-death consequence -- microfilm, documents, uranium-filled wine bottles -- and setting his characters in pursuit.
The three amigos take on climate change

Obama, Calderon, and Harper talk up vision for ‘low-carbon North America’ 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
At a North American summit Monday in Guadalajara, Mexico, U.S. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper released a statement on climate change.
Double Ultra economic stimulus Deluxe!

Cash for Clunkers pays for itself in oil savings while generating free CO2 reductions 5
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
As a CO2-saver only, sure, Cash for Clunkers wouldn't be a wise investment. The primary purpose of the program was NOT CO2 savings, but an economic boost with efficiency and environmental gains.
Reasonable People... on the Washington Post? It's true!

Doerr and Immelt: To become the green tech leader, we need a price and a cap on carbon 2
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
As I've been saying for over a decade now, the U.S. has lost its lead to other countries because conservatives have blocked the policies needed to turn the U.S. historical leadership in inventing new technologies into leadership in manufacturing those technologies.
What Role for U.S. Carbon Sequestration? 3
Posted 4 months ago
With the development of climate legislation proceeding in the U.S. Senate, a key question is whether the United States can cost-effectively reduce a significant share of its contributions to increased atmospheric CO₂ concentrations through forest-based carbon sequestration.
The Strange Case of Carbon

So what is carbon anyway? 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
We hear the word "carbon" in the headlines frequently, but how many of us actually understand what it is?
Follow the money

Southern Company dominates the climate lobbying scene 3
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago By David Donald, Marianne Lavelle
Southern Company, the nation's largest electric power generator, also had the largest force of lobbyists among the hundreds of businesses and interest groups that were seeking to influence the landmark climate change legislation that just passed the House.
Next on climate: Improve Waxman-Markey innovation provisions in Senate 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Few aspects of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill matter more than the insufficient degree to which it applies future revenue to clean energy innovation. Quite simply, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) makes only a modest start toward promoting the technology breakthroughs that will make clean energy cheap, reduce carbon emissions, and create thousands of cleantech jobs.
Behind the numbers

350 vs. 450: The heart of the matter 2
Posted 5 months ago
There has never been a civic dispute as precisely quantified as climate. Most U.S. environmental organizations endorse the Waxman-Markey climate bill with the stated goal of keeping atmospheric greenhouse gases below 450 parts per million. The conservative position enunciated by Jim Hansen, advanced by Bill McKibben and 350.org, and endorsed by a handful of climate advocates (none of them mainstream environmental organizations) is defined as an immediate return below 300-350 ppm.

The two numbers are not staging points on a gradual curve of escalating climate impacts, a fact that does not seem to be acknowledged in the present debate. Each goal is the product of an entirely different calculus.
Going bananas

Can we be ‘green’ and eat tropical products, too? 7
Posted 5 months ago
It's hard to be a locavore when you're hooked on coffee, like bananas in your smoothies, and enjoy an afternoon cuppa for a quick pickup. Lou Bendrick weighs in on how to keep your green cred and consume tropical products, too.
Fundamentally unserious

The climate bill is about more than shaking the money tree 4
Posted 5 months ago
A handful of farm-state reps are trying really hard to screw up our chance to address climate change. And really, our political system is poorly designed to respond to long-term threats like temperatures that creep up. But all isn't lost.
Dispatch from Bonn: Rainforest Action Network

The case for carbon speed limits 2
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
With the conclusion of this round of talks, negotiators have succeeded in creating a legal draft text that will be refined at the next round of talks in Bonn in August – now up to 200 pages from the original 50 created in Poznan - but we still are missing the critical fuel that we will need to continue the process all the way to Copenhagen: the political will to actually achieve emissions reductions, particularly on the part of the United States.
Dispatch from Bonn: Rainforest Action Network

Short term memory won’t cut it 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Developed countries from Japan to the E.U. are failing to really seriously invest in the task at hand: reducing emissions. Instead, they seem to be trying their best to do as little as possible while getting the most possible credit for their actions. And that’s not even counting the U.S.
A walk through the week's climate news

The Climate Post: Waxman-Markey, Bonn, and carbon counting 6
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The U.S. Congress fast-tracks climate legislation, international negotiators hash through the first “negotiating text” for year-end global talks in Germany, and big businesses start counting their carbon. The pile of climate stories this week climbed faster than predicted New England sea levels.
U.S. responsible for 29 percent of CO2 emissions over past 150 years, triple China’s share 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Since the mid-1800s, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide accounted for 29 percent of the global total. Those 328,000 million metric tons of cumulative emissions are the most of any country and more than three times the amount emitted by China over the same period, according to data from the World Resources Institute.
Still too reliant on coal

Coal the culprit in rising emissions intensity 2
Posted 7 months ago
Advances in climate science took a nosedive in NASA satellite crash 7
Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago
RGGI auction: CO2 trading at $3 per ton 10
Posted 11 months ago