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To Unlock Wind Power, Put a Price on Carbon

Memo to North Dakota 0
Posted 16 hours, 10 minutes ago
Is the U.S. Chamber changing its tune on climate, or just its tone? 1
Posted 3 days, 14 hours ago On Tuesday, the U.S. Chamber sent a letter to Sens. Boxer and Inhofe about the climate bill. It seemed to be singing a new tune on climate policy, leading Sen. Kerry to wonder whether the letter reflects a real change in the Chamber's position.
MORE FALSE SOLUTIONS! OH MY!

Geoengineering: Plan B for when Copenhagen fails? eek! 0
Posted 3 days, 20 hours ago
Climate Denial Crock of the Week

2009 polar melt season: The stats are in 0
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago The 2009 ice melt season has just been completed at the northern polar cap, and observations confirm that the decay of the arctic ocean ice cover is continuing a steady decline.
GMO wishes, geo-engineering dreams

Save us, [insert techno-fix here], you’re our only hope! 7
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago Watching SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt sitting next to Jon Stewart as they shook their heads in disbelief that everyone wasn't on the climate change/geo-engineering bandwagon depressed me to no end. Techno-fixes--you gotta love 'em. Or not.
the roadmap is paved with gold

A solar energy future: Maybe you can get there from here 2
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Solar Technology Roadmap Act has drawn enthusiastic support from the business community and the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, can it lure reluctant Senators to support the Kerry-Boxer bill?
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago Sen. Robert Byrd hated the climate bill that passed the House in June, but he seems a little more open to the Kerry-Boxer bill being considered in the Senate.
Climate walks

More Climate Action Day action from Umbra Fisk 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Grist's Umbra Fisk talks International Climate Action Day with Peter Singer, Bat Man, Robert Swan and the climate-conscious denizens of New York.
NOAA - Second hottest September on record 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Local fetishists still wrong

We need transmission to solve global warming 15
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago The new version of Energy Self-Reliant States manages to duplicate the fallacies of their previous reports, and adds new ones.
Every corner of the globe 0
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago
lies, damn lies, and baseball caps

The American Farm Bureau goes all in 29
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago Agribiz lobbying group AFB's new pitch: "Don't CAP Our Future."
Downright Paltry Private Spending

National Institutes of Energy needed to fill energy research and development gap 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago The U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical industry invests between 10-20 percent of revenues in research and development (R&D) and new product development, spending $58.8 billion on R&D in 2007. The U.S. government adds an additional $30 billion per year investment in biomedical R&D through the National Institutes of Health. In contrast, the U.S. energy sector invests well below $3 billion annually in R&D in an industry with well over a trillion dollars in annual revenue.
CLIMATE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN

Bangkok: rich countries try to kill Kyoto, youth declare 0
Posted 1 month ago
Cap-and-Trade versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy 1
Posted 1 month ago
Most Climate Crocks are a decade old. Here's a shiny new one!

Climate Denial Crock of the Week/Birth of a Crock 0
Posted 1 month ago
don't get in the way, congress!

Growth in renewable energy outpaces nuclear, fossil fuels 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Chamber Chief Donohue Emerges as Unlikely Hero for Climate Protection

US Chamber Calls for Global Powers for Congress 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Jumpstarting Clean Energy

Report Pushes for More Research Investment and New National Institutes of Energy 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
More than a pretty slogan

Climate plus security minus hyperbole still scary 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The impact of climate change on national security has finally moved above the fold. And as the December Copenhagen climate change negotiations approach, politicians and experts alike are being forced to examine the complex effects of natural and social change on security. They must also walk a linguistic tightrope between hyperbole and uncertainty, working to present the facts without exaggerating their meaning. So how do they maintain balance while climate security arguments are touted as a way to compel a tough climate agreement in Copenhagen? The short answer: It won't be easy.