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I'll Have the Marsupial of the Day Aussies should fight climate change by eating kangaroo, says study		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 08 Aug 2008 Australians who want to make a dent in climate change just need to eat more kangaroo, says a new study in the journal Conservation Letters. The methane-producing burps and farts of sheep and cattle contribute 11 percent of Australia's annual greenhouse-gas emissions. Kangaroos, however, emit little methane. Researchers say that 175 million kangaroos could produc ...
Topics: agriculture, Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, livestock, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Revkin agonistes Is tackling climate change contrary to human nature?	David Roberts	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
On DotEarth, Andy Revkin again wrestles with a dilemma he returns to frequently: how do we overcome human nature? He quotes the work of David Ropeik, who's done considerable work on communicating risk, and who is not sanguine about our ability to communicate the risk of climate change. The problem, Revkin and Ropeik agree, is that climate change doesn't activate our primal survival instincts. No matter how much evidence is presented, how many reasoned arguments are ad ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Things smart people assume	David Roberts	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In Sunday's WaPo, Joel Achebach says, 'Rigorous science is the best weapon for persuading the public that [climate change] is a real problem that requires bold action.' The best weapon? Is that true?
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science (all these topics)

You say you want a revolution ... 'Major discovery' from MIT unpractical, and ignores present advances in solar baseload	Joseph Romm	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I have gotten bombarded by too many people asking me if the story headlined above is true. It isn't. Not even close. Science magazine, which published the supposedly 'major discovery' by MIT's Daniel Nocera, headlined their story, 'New Catalyst Marks Major Step in the March Toward Hydrogen Fuel' ($ub. req'd). Doh! But who needs a major step towards hydrogen? And Science seems to be having problems with the laws of physics, as we'll see. I thought I had expla ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, hydrogen, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Fred Krupp's response EDF prez says we can't afford to wait for the ideal first step	Guest author	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Fred Krupp This is a guest post from Fred Krupp, head of Environmental Defense Fund. It is a response to this post. ----- Ken Ward tracks the evolution of EDF's position on climate legislation in search of evidence that we've relented on tough global warming pollution limits since making climate change a top priority more than ten years ago. He sees our support of the Climate Security Act as a retreat from bold action, as surrender to what's merely possible i ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Environmental Defense Fund, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Efficiency first! Part two The urgency to begin CO2 reduction via efficiency	Guest author	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Ned Ford, Energy Chair of the Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club and a member of the Club's national Global Warming and Energy Committee. Ford has been actively promoting electric utility efficiency strategies since 1983. This is the second in a series (first here). ----- If what you want to do is solve global warming, the core strategy is energy efficiency. Efficiency may have displaced more than half of all the new growth in electr ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Volunteers for Fears Voluntary programs not so effective, says gov't watchdog		25 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 25 Jul 2008 Shocker: Voluntary measures to reduce greenhouse gases don't work so well, the U.S. EPA Inspector General's Office said Thursday. Despite the Bush administration's adoration of the word "voluntary," such programs have "limited potential" to actually address pollution and climate-change concerns, said the report. Too often, industries decline to spend money to partic ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, US EPA (all these topics)

West Foot Forward Western states unveil draft cap-and-trade scheme		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:53 PM on 24 Jul 2008 The Western Climate Initiative has unveiled a draft proposal for a regional cap-and-trade program that would kick off in 2012. The 11 states and provinces involved -- Arizona, British Columbia, California, Manitoba, Montana, New Mexico, Ontario, Oregon, Quebec, Utah, and Washington -- would impose an as-yet-determined greenhouse-gas emissions limit on industries and utilities, then allow laggards ...
Topics: Arizona, business, California, Canada, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Montana, New Mexico, news, Oregon, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Lime for a change Could lime absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide?	JMG	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
If this pans out, this is a huge idea -- and potentially a reprieve from climate disaster:Tim Kruger, a management consultant at London firm Corven, is the brains behind the plan to resurrect the lime process. He argues that it could be made workable by locating it in regions that have a combination of low-cost 'stranded' energy considered too remote to be economically viable to exploit -- like flared natural gas or solar energy in deserts -- and that are rich in limestone, ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Gore's plan is more than 100 percent feasible We can do more than he calls for, but I would settle for Gore's objective	Gar Lipow	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Everyone is talking about Gore's proposal to decarbonize electricity over the course of 10 years. Without considering transmission and storage losses, Gore's estimate of $1.5 to 3 trillion would require capital costs of under 37 to 74 cents per annual kWh. Taking those losses into consideration, cost would have to be more in the 28 to 56 cents per kWh range. (Note again these are not cost per watt of capacity. These are costs per annual kWh. They are levelized cos ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Howdy, Ontario A big addition to the Western Climate Initiative	Eric de Place	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Ontario officially joins the Western Climate Initiative as a full partner. Sweet. Some Americans may not fully realize the significance of this. So for my fellow Yankees (and with apologies to readers north of the border) ... Ontario is the California of Canada in the sense that it has more people and economic activity than any other province. On the other hand, Ontario is the Michigan of Canada in the sense that it has a huge auto manufacturing base. And yet Ontari ...
Topics: Canada, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, regulation (all these topics)

What's Newsom? Grist talks to San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom about greening the city	Kate Sheppard	20 Jul 2008	Gristmill
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom stopped by Netroots Nation on Sunday to introduce Van Jones, and he also talked to the crowd about some of the green accomplishments his city has been able to make so far. Newsom has proposed the toughest building standards in the country, and in November 2008 he was planning to submit a carbon tax to voters for their approval (he's now pushed that back to 2009). In March he signed into law a requirement that the city's taxi fleet ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, politics, San Francisco, video (all these topics)

Gore at Netroots Nation? UPDATE: Gore at Netroots Nation!	David Roberts	19 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The hot rumor at the moment is that Al Gore is going to appear at Netroots Nation immediately following Nancy Pelosi's Q&A session (which is going on right now). We'll keep you posted. UPDATE: There he is! Let's blog along, shall we? He loves the netroots -- informed citizenry, etc. etc. North pole melting -- 75-80 percent chance that the entire polar ice cap will be melted and gone within five years. How can we absorb the meaning of an event of that ma ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Late to the party, but made the last call Bloggers weigh Gore's plan in advance of 'Meet the Press'	Sara Barz	18 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Liberals love Gore's gall. Conservatives hate that he drove a gas-guzzler to the big speech. Politicians grumble over his timing. Climate policy wonks and science geeks admire the inititive, but want something a little more ... feasible ... say, 50 to 90 percent renewable electricity by 2020 with a little natural gas for good measure? Across the blogosphere, however, certain questions about Gore's plan remain unanswered. What practical measures will we take to get ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, mainstream media (all these topics)

Right Ontario Ontario joins up with Western carbon cutters		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 5:28 PM on 18 Jul 2008 Ontario has joined the Western Climate Initiative, a regional carbon-trading agreement with a goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The province joins seven U.S. states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and three Canadian counterparts (British Columbia, Manitoba, and Quebec). For those folks not up on their Canadian know-how ...
Topics: Canada, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

Input on outputs New white paper provides more details on output-based standards	Sean Casten	18 Jul 2008	Gristmill
For those of a policy-wonk bent. For those who simply loved my earlier post on output-based standards for greenhouse gas control and have been thirsting ever since for more details (I know you're out there!). For those who wait eagerly at their mailbox waiting for the current issues of electricity policy magazines to arrive ... Yea, verily, I bring you this [PDF]. A white paper just published in The Electricity Journal, providing much more detail than was appropria ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, regulation (all these topics)

Mr. Gore, how do you feel about 90 percent? Blogosphere responds reservedly to Gore's call for 100 percent renewable electricity	Sara Barz	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Al Gore stood up in Washington today to call on Americans to join a crusade for 100 percent renewable electricity use by 2018. The blogosphere's response? A golf clap and general round of nitpicking ... Some see the renewable energy goal as a touch impractical, and his beating of the carbon tax drum (1993 ... anyone? anyone?) irked plenty of conservatives -- no surprise -- and congressional Democrats on the grounds of poor timing as the American economy limps ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

More Gore Watch the video of Gore's speech today	Grist	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
If the summary and full text of Gore's speech have left you wanting more, here's the vid:
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, heroes, video (all these topics)

NYC government plans 30 percent carbon cuts by 2017 Energy efficiency is cornerstone of ambitious plan	Adam Stein	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Everyone's favorite McKinsey study suggests that America can shed a huge chunk of its emissions through costless measures, primarily in the realm of energy efficiency. The fly in this delicious low-carbon ointment is that the freebie cuts haven't so far happened by themselves, and it's never entirely clear how well an analyst's report is going to translate into reality. How nice, then, that New York City is gearing up to provide the proof point we've all been waiting for. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, New York City (all these topics)

On a Wing and a Prayer Aviation industry is into greening, to an extent		16 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:25 AM on 16 Jul 2008 The aviation industry talked up greenness Wednesday at the world's biggest air show in Farnborough, England. At a sustainability summit, Giovanni Bisignani of the International Air Transport Association called climate change an "emergency situation" and said airlines are the best suited to address it: "No other industry is as responsible, united, and ambitious." Indeed, t ...
Topics: air travel, business, climate, climate change mitigation, fuel efficiency, news (all these topics)

The hole truth EPA proposes new regulations for injecting carbon into the ground	Kate Sheppard	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The EPA released a proposal for a new rule on Tuesday that lays some of the groundwork needed to get carbon capture and storage technology up and running. If formally adopted, the new rule would create a new class of injection wells under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act's Underground Injection Control program. There are currently five different types of wells; this would add a sixth for those created to store carbon emissions from coal-fired power pl ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hog heaven, part 2 Climate action requires leadership beyond political 'reasonableness'	Joseph Romm	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. Let's face it: The Bush Administration has made a mess of things, as noted in 'Hog heaven, part 1.' It is now clear, if it hasn't been all along, that by the time George Bush leaves office, the White House will have wasted eight years of leadership on the Mother of All Issues. If those eight years are a profound disappointment looking backwa ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Salzburg: day two Netherlands' response to climate change	David Roberts	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Don't have much time to write -- another starting already! -- but I just saw an extraordinary presentation from Pavel Kabat, who ... well, he's got a resume longer than my arm, but he's a scientist and a lead author on both the IPCC report and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. The talk was on the Netherlands' response to climate change. Not only is th ...
Topics: Austria, climate, climate change mitigation, Netherlands (all these topics)

A billion here, a billion there Alberta sets aside nearly $4 billion for public transport and CCS	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
From Greenwire ($ub. req'd) comes this news from Alberta that sounds so promising and then gets it so very wrong. First the good news: Alberta, under continuing pressure to do something about their tar-sand driven boom in CO2 emissions, has committed to using C$4 billion worth ($3.92 billion) of their budget surplus to lowering CO2 emissions. Whatever one thinks of tar sands, that's admirable. But then, in an all-too-common case of confusing the path with the goal ...
Topics: Alberta, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, oil sands, public transportation (all these topics)

Costly climate The Freakonomists weigh in on the effects of warming	Ryan Avent	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Manzian (as in Jim Manzi) climate policy skepticism stems in part from a fairly simple idea: The cost of legislation is unlikely to be justified given likely savings from averted warming effects. In other words, warming, in the short-term, just isn't going to cost that much. But what does that mean? Well, for one thing, it means that near-term bad effects from warming will be overwhelmingly concentrated in poor nations, and luckily for us, making the poor much w ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, economy (all these topics)

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