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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Hot, flat, and badly reviewed Gregg Easterbrook still knows nothing about global warming -- and less about clean energy	Joseph Romm	15 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Slate magazine is seen as liberal, but is in fact just another status quo publication promoting a do-nothing policy on clean energy and global warming. Why else ask for a review of Tom Friedman's new call to action, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, from the American Bjørn Lomborg? And I don't mean that in a good way. I'm speaking about Gregg Easterbrook, well-known fountain of climate and energy misinformation. I've already commented on Friedman's must-read book here. T ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy, tax incentives (all these topics)

A hundred miles of mirrors Solar thermal can save us, but it needs public clamor	Ted Nace	22 Jun 2008	Gristmill
[Editor's note: When this post was originally run, the phrase '100 miles by 100 miles' was changed to '100 square miles,' which is very different. The article has now been corrected (or rather, unmiscorrected) and the appropriate intern flogged; our apologies to Ted and Alex.] This post was coauthored with Alex Carlin, organizer of Let's Go Solar and instigator of the recent Environment America study (PDF), 'On the Rise: Solar Thermal Power and the Fight Against Global ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, energy (all these topics)

A glimpse of possible futures One of permaculture's founder envisions possible futures	JMG	26 May 2008	Gristmill
An important new site from David Holmgren, one of the fathers of permaculture: Future Scenarios.He writes, 'The simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation. Each limits the effective options for responses to the other.' Holmgren uses a scenario planning framework to bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural and economic implications of peak oil and climate change. 'Scenar ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, energy, websites (all these topics)

If you worry about the impact of climate mitigation on the poor ... CBPP launches a climate equity program	Joseph Romm	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
You'll be glad to know The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has launched a major climate program whose goals are to ensure that: the increased energy prices that are an essential part of climate-change legislation do not drive more households into poverty or make poor households poorer; and climate-change legislation generates sufficient revenue both to protect low-income households and to address other needs related to the fight against global warming, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, energy (all these topics)

Good News for People Who Love Bad News Reports bring various doomy and gloomy predictions		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:52 PM on 22 Oct 2007 Indeed, the depressing reports come fast and furious. German-based Energy Watch Group says the world has already reached peak oil, and predicts that production will now fall by 7 percent a year. The Worldwatch Institute suggests that 21 cities that will have populations of 8 million or more by 2015 are highly vulnerable to havoc wreaked by rising seas. The comprehensive &qu ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, energy, news, oil, severe weather (all these topics)

Hansen on 'trains of death' Yeah, coal again	Joseph Romm	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Still more from James Hansen's email: Ed Wilson explains that the 21st century is a "bottleneck" for species, because of extreme stresses they will experience, most of all from climate change. He foresees a potentially brighter future beyond the fossil fuel era, beyond the peak human population will occur if developing countries follow the path of the developed world to lower fertility rates. Air and water can be clean and we will learn to live wi ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, coal, energy, James Hansen, wildlife (all these topics)

Western civilization? What a nice idea	James Dailey	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
If Gandhi were around today, I think he would be less reasonable and tractable about the climate crisis; instead, he would challenge the moral integrity of so-called western civilization. The galvanizing march to the salt flats (the famous 'Salt March') would be a tour of threatened island nations: Inuit seeking redress for loss of habitat, mountain people facing bewildering change, deluges in Bangladesh, landslides in the Philippines, and masses of people in the Indus- ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental justice, severe weather (all these topics)

Biofuels and the poor The former: Not good for the latter	Maywa Montenegro	22 May 2007	Gristmill
How climate change will disproportionately affect the world's poor is a message making the rounds of late, after the publication of the second IPCC report earlier this year. How climate change policies, such as carbon taxes, will either help or hurt the poor is also a topic we've been discussing of late. Now researchers at the University of Minnesota have assessed the impact of an increased dependence on biofuels on the developing world ... and the outlook isn't ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, carbon tax, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, IPCC (all these topics)

Cynics can't keep up Sawing off the limbs we've climbed up to see	JMG	03 May 2007	Gristmill
From the article 'Holiday at the End of the Earth: Tourists Paying to See Global Warming in Action,' posted on Common Dreams: 'The idea of global-warming tourism is full of ironies,' he said. 'If enough people expend enough fossil fuels to visit one Warming Island, they will ensure that there will be many more.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

The Nation takes on climate change Lots o' goodies	David Roberts	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Nation has devoted its current issue to "surviving the climate crisis," and it's chock full o' good stuff. First up is Jim Hansen, the World's Least Censored Censored Scientist, who recommends the following five steps: "First, there should be a moratorium on building any more coal-fired power plants until we have the technology to capture and sequester the CO2." A gradually increasing price on CO2 emissions. Energy-efficiency sta ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

McCain's big speech on energy and climate A mixed bag	David Roberts	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
John McCain gave a major speech today in which he said that energy dependence and global warming are major threats to America's future that urgently need to be addressed. The policy section started off with this great bit: Energy efficiency by using improved technology and practicing sensible habits in our homes, businesses and automobiles is a big part of the answer, and is something we can achieve right now. And new advances will make conservation an ever more im ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, elections, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics)

A functional, global response: Strategy Environmentalists need to fundamentally change their climate change strategy	Ken Ward	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include)) Pro-fossil fuel forces are pursuing an effective strategy that engages the attention of climate action advocates and obscures the vigorous expansion of fossil fuel supply now underway. How is it possible for the world's best informed governmental and private sector leaders to proceed with this course of action when the consequences are known? An answer, of sorts, is visible in the business plans and statements of fossil fuel sector leaders. ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Corn ethanol: it really does suck And cellulosic might too -- plus it's still a decade off	Tom Philpott	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Yes, this is another bitter polemic against ethanol, but I want to make one point up front, because I sometimes forget to: The only concrete alternative energy/climate policy that our political class can agree on -- a plan that unites Democrats and Republicans to commit some $5 billion per year and rising -- is a clear and obvious boondoggle: a cash sieve that has done and will do much more harm than good. This is our main public intervention into the energy markets ...
Topics: cellulosic ethanol, climate, climate change impacts, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics)

A man leaps off the top of a building ... When people ask silly questions	JMG	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
'If fossil fuels are the problem, wouldn't running out of them be good?' There's an old joke about economists and other Panglossians that bears on this question: A man leaps off the top of a skyscraper and, as he passes by each floor, true to his optimistic tendencies, he says, "Well, so far, so good." Running out of fossil fuels is like this man running out of floors. The critical thing is not to jump ... i.e., not to commit all that carbon to the atmosphere ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, oil (all these topics)

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