Climate Change Mitigation

Rallying around a wrench

Does the public need to understand cap-and-trade? 12
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The public doesn't know what cap-and-trade is, but really, does it need to? Is that the real issue?
McKinsey (still) finds stabilizing at 450 ppm has a net cost near zero

Do you have any questions for McKinsey about their updated GHG cost curve? 1
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
I have written a great deal about the terrific work of McKinsey & Company. So I was excited and delighted to be invited by The German Marshall Fund to be the respondent for a roundtable discussion Monday in DC on their updated cost-curve.
It Could Be Verse

A climate-news poem for the week of May 4 1
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Think nothing rhymes with Waxman-Markey? C'mon, now, that's just malarkey.
What's the sound of one hand solving a problem?

Republican incoherence on climate change 10
Posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Republicans can't offer the public a solution to climate change because their base won't allow them to acknowledge the problem.
Vague intentions

U.S. pledges something or other on climate 1
Posted 7 months ago
Today United States negotiators promised “ambitious actions,” “robust targets,” and pretty much nada details in a proposal overdue to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
A change (a change!) would do you good

Is ‘lifestyle change’ to be feared? 11
Posted 7 months ago
Will tackling climate change require "lifestyle changes," and if so, are they something climate campaigners should fear or downplay?
Hizzoner's Progress

15 green-leaning mayors 17
Posted 7 months ago
Global warming is a global problem -- but there ain't no global solution. That's why mayors across the U.S. are taking matters into their own hands.
The Prince and the Poper

Charles and Benedict chat about climate 1
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Prince Charles and Pope Benedict XVI met to discuss their shared environmental concerns. With press reports containing scant details, we are left to imagine the proceedings.
Letter from Europe

Running out the climate clock 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Boldly labelled "Countdown to Copenhagen," the clock perched on the podium at the latest round of international climate talks ticked off the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the start of the Copenhagen summit in December, widely billed as the last chance to strike a deal to stop global warming from running out of control.
Why the CDM should matter to the United States 11
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Too many critics in the United States simply want to throw the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) baby out with the bath water. The real opportunity is to learn from the experience and use the fantastic negotiating power of the U.S. government and economy to improve the system.
On thin ice with the billionaire 5
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
The billionaire told me that the public, you and I, do not really matter when it comes to global warming. It is all about technology, he said. People will always chose the cheapest, most convenient way.
Monbiot cautioned to hold the explosives

Don’t throw out the biochar baby with the bathwater 4
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Friedman: MSM's climate Cassandra

NYT’s Tom Friedman updates the global warming threat and spells out the solution 0
Posted 8 months ago
The NYT columnist Tom Friedman has another terrific global warming piece this past weekend, "Mother Nature's Dow."
Stern words

U.S. climate envoy tells international gathering all the right things about climate 0
Posted 8 months ago
If you're looking for rays of hope amidst the torrent of idiocy and bad news -- not that I'm projecting -- you could do worse than reading U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern's speech to the recent international climate gathering in Bonn, Germany.
Letter from Europe

A mandarin’s plea for climate action 0
Posted 8 months ago
Tom Burke, a longtime adviser to British leaders on climate issues, says the international conference to set a new treaty to combat climate change, set for December in Copenhagen, "will do more to shape human destiny for longer" than any previous meeting in the history of the world.
Beyond Carbon

Umbra on the other greenhouse gases 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Trying to reduce your carbon footprint, but worried about toeing the line? Umbra has a sole-ution.
Will you sign mine?

UNEP yearbook distills a year’s worth of climate science and innovation 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The UNEP year book summarizes a year's worth of climate-science findings, tallies the amount of global waste produced annually (two billion tons), and checks in on the conditions of the world's largest carbon sinks -- oceans, forests, and permafrost. Naturally, it's a gloomy picture.
No particular policy instrument is appropriate for all environmental problems 11
Posted 9 months ago
The game plan: regulating CO2 under the Clean Air Act 7
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
A Hoard of a Different Color

Doomsday seed vault’s stores are growing 0
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago