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Polluter appeasement Should we question the patriotism of deniers?	Joseph Romm	04 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Independence Day may be the best day to ask ourselves -- what is the greatest preventable threat to Americans' life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness (LLPH). The answer is simple: human-caused global warming. Certainly there are other major threats to LLPH, the gravest of which is probably terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapon, in this country. Between Homeland Security and the Pentagon, we spend billions of dollars every m ...
Topics: climate, climate science, energy, fossil fuels, holiday, politics (all these topics)

Revkin interviews Hansen	David Roberts	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here, NYT reporter Andrew Revkin interviews climate scientist James Hansen about the 20th anniversary of his seminal Congressional testimony: More on Dot Earth.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, James Hansen, politics, video (all these topics)

Achieving the climate goal Short-term targets key to long-term stabilization	Tony Kreindler	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ken Ward takes a worthwhile look at the goalposts for U.S. climate policy in his argument for making 350 parts per million the new bright line for success. We agree that we need to aim lower than 450 ppm -- the world is at roughly 380 ppm now, and we're already witnessing adverse climate impacts. But we part ways when it comes to how we're going to get there. Ward suggests that EDF's support for the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act can't be reconciled with a s ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A modern-day Cassandra Thoughts on the 20th anniversary of James Hansen's historic Congressional testimony	Representative Ed Markey	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy -- of seeing the future. But she was also cursed to have no one believe her. For far too many years, Dr. James Hansen has been a modern-day Cassandra. Gifted with a scientific training that allowed him to see the forces at work that are warming the planet, for too many years he was also not believed by many who chose to ignore or deny the scientific reality of global warming. Today, it is my pleas ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, Ed Markey, James Hansen, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Paul Revere rides again Hansen marks 20th anniversary of landmark testimony to Congress with renewed call to action	Kate Sheppard	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
James Hansen. Photo: nasa.govIt was a sweltering June 23 in Washington, D.C., when climatologist James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to testify about his certainty that the record high temperatures were the result of human activity. That was 20 years ago. 'The earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements,' Hansen told s ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

NOAA: Global warming has damaged our weather Worse heat waves, floods, droughts, hurricanes, and storms to come	Brad Johnson	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Wonk Room. The traditional media rarely discusses extreme weather events in the context of global warming. However, as the Wonk Room Global Boiling series has documented, scientists have been warning us for years that climate change will increase catastrophic weather events like the California wildfires, the East Coast heatwave, and the Midwest floods that have been taking lives and causing billions in damage in recent days. Yesterday, th ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, politics (all these topics)

A climate hero: An outspoken truth A look back at James Hansen's seminal testimony on climate, part three	Guest author	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A Climate Hero: An Outspoken Truth Worldwatch Institute is partnering with Grist to bring you this three-part series commemorating the 20-year anniversary of NASA scientist James Hansen's groundbreaking testimony on global climate change next week. It is written by Worldwatch staff writer Ben Block. Part three of three follows. Part one is here; part two is here. ----- In May 1989, a few months after NASA scientist James Hansen declared that global warming ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

Back to Nature Nature publishes my climate analysis and solution	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here is perhaps my most succinct and citable explanation of why 'Both national and global climate policy (PDF) must redirect its focus from setting a price on carbon to promoting the rapid deployment of clean technologies' (online here). True, I didn't think I would appear in Nature again. But Nature online asked me for my critique of the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Bill bill, and they were open to a big-picture commentary based on the latest climate science. They even r ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A climate hero: The testimony A look back at James Hansen's seminal testimony on climate, part two	Guest author	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Worldwatch Institute is partnering with Grist to bring you this three-part series commemorating the 20-year anniversary of NASA scientist James Hansen's groundbreaking testimony on global climate change next week. It is written by Worldwatch staff writer Ben Block. Part two of three follows. Part one is here. ----- An unprecedented heat wave gripped the United States in the summer of 1988. Droughts destroyed crops. Forests were in flames. The Mississippi River ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

A climate hero: The early years A look back at James Hansen's seminal testimony on climate, part one	Guest author	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Worldwatch Institute is partnering with Grist to bring you this three-part series commemorating the 20-year anniversary of NASA scientist James Hansen�s groundbreaking testimony on global climate change next week. It is written by Worldwatch staff writer Ben Block. Here follows part one. Part two is here. ----- The speakers at a Washington, D.C., climate rally this past Earth Day, April 22, showcased the range of the modern environmental movement. They includ ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, National Academy of Sciences, politics (all these topics)

CEI-yai-yai CEI deniers praise Andy Revkin, diss Tiger Woods	Joseph Romm	14 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I'd like to thank the Competitive Enterprise Institute for publishing such an unintentionally informative and amusing newsletter. Rarely has the anti-scientific nature of global warming denial been so well stated in a mere two sentences: A scientist who says that the atmosphere is warming, and cites certain physical processes, is still a scientist. A scientist who argues that people must take certain acts to avoid disaster has become a priest. In other word ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Boxer bill update Probably no U.S. CO2 emissions cuts from new Lieberman-Warner bill until after 2025	Joseph Romm	28 May 2008	Gristmill
I made a mistake about the Boxer substitute for the Lieberman-Warner bill. Every year, it allows enough offsets into the market to cover 30 percent of the total quantity of emissions allowances. I had said it was 15 percent, which was a loophole the size of the Gateway Arch. How big a loophole is 30 percent offsets? Wait and see. I had said the three offsets -- domestic, international, and international forestry -- could make up 15 percent of allowances because the ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Me on a podcast	David Roberts	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I am on this week's podcast from PolticalAffairs.net. I'll confess when the PA guy called me I didn't know it was a record of 'Marxist thought online,' but hey, let a thousand flowers bloom. As it happens I was talking about a market-based carbon policy, kind of an odd subject for a Marxist podcast, but it was fun. If you listen closely, you can hear me stirring my lunch on the stove as I talk. Multitasking might explain why I was talking so damn slowly. It sounds like ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

The flaccid mind of Stephen Johnson National Journal on the EPA tailspin	Joseph Romm	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been failing spectacularly to do what the law requires, as determined by numerous federal judges (including the Supreme Court). For a more in-depth look, consider a pair of articles by Margaret Kriz in the National Journal. 'Vanishing Act' looks at many of the failures of the EPA. 'The President's Man' presents an interview with EPA Administrat ...
Topics: climate, climate science, dumbassery, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, Stephen Johnson, US EPA (all these topics)

Dear Mr. Gibbons A letter from a climate scientist to Nevada's governor	Guest author	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The following is a open letter to Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons from noted climate scientist James Hansen. ----- Dear Governor Gibbons, I am honored to be the recipient of the Desert Research Institute's annual Nevada Medal this year and to attend the awards ceremonies hosted by you and the First Lady. I hope that I may communicate with you as a fellow parent and grandparent about a matter that will have great effects upon the lives of our loved ones. I refer to ...
Topics: climate, climate science, coal, energy, James Hansen, Nevada, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Al Gore at TED	David Roberts	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Al Gore addresses the TED conference, March 2008: Pretty intense. You can see how he is consciously attempting to transcend politics -- he's shooting for something bigger now.
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

California waiver update	David Roberts	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Earlier this year I wrote about a new (EPA-sponsored) study showing that increased CO2 in the atmosphere is directly correlated with increased ozone, particulates, and carcinogens in the air. Since California suffers disproportionately from those traditional air pollutants, it follows that California does have "extraordinary and compelling conditions" in the face of climate change, and the EPA's decision to deny Cali's waiver was bogus. Now the author of th ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Dr. Hansen to Dr. Merkel Carbon is forever -- so ban new traditional coal plants now	Joseph Romm	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Another clear statement (PDF) from the nation's top climate scientist on the scientific need for a dramatic change in global coal policy -- this time addressed to the German chancellor, a fellow physicist. He points out that: The fact that energy and climate advisors, in Germany, the United States, and elsewhere, do not understand the problem is starkly illustrated by repetition of goals to reduce CO2 emissions by a percentage (say 40% by 2020, 80% by 2050, or o ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate science, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

More scientist/activists Here's hoping newly politically active scientists don't step on rakes	David Roberts	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
A few days ago I said of James Hansen's increasing activism: Hansen has decided that it would be perverse to hoard the social capital that comes with being a prominent scientist in the U.S., standing by nervously guarding his credibility while the climate goes to shit. So he's taking a big risk and spending some of that capital. I wish more people would make the same decision. Speaking of that, check out this Dot Earth post on Rich Somerville, one climate scien ...
Topics: climate, climate science, politics (all these topics)

Pseudoscience The sad state of Bush's science advice	Joseph Romm	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Most science advisers have taken as their job to inform the president and his administration, as well as Congress, the media, and the public, of the thinking of the scientific community on key science issues of the day. Bush's advisor, John H. Marburger III, takes the opposite view. He believes his job is to inform (misinform? disinform?) the scientific community, as well as Congress, the media, and the public, of the 'thinking' of the Bush Administration on key s ...
Topics: climate science, tech, energy, climate, politics (all these topics)

Tampering with the science Henry Waxman weighs in on Bush admin. efforts to suppress climate science	Brian Beutler	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The House Oversight committee has released its official report (PDF) on White House efforts to interfere with climate change science, and its conclusions are ... well, totally predictable. To wit: The Committee's 16-month investigation reveals a systematic White House effort to censor climate scientists by controlling their access to the press and editing testimony to Congress. The White House was particularly active in stifling discussions of the link betwe ...
Topics: climate, climate science, lying liars, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Museum meddling Republican war on science, edition MMCCCVIII	Brian Beutler	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Surprised? Some government scientists have complained that officials at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took steps to downplay global warming in a 2006 exhibit on the Arctic to avoid a political backlash, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The museum's director, Cristian Samper, ordered last-minute changes to the exhibit's script to add 'scientific uncertainty' about climate change, according to internal documents and cor ...
Topics: politics, climate change skepticism, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Policy Academy 4: Citizens on Petrol IPCC to hammer out summary of climate science for policymakers		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 6:03 AM on 12 Nov 2007 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week in Valencia, Spain, to distill the panel's three massive scientific climate-change reports released earlier this year into a concise 25-page summary for the world's governments. Expect environmentalists and others concerned about climate-change's effects to lobby for strong language clearly spelli ...
Topics: climate, climate science, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Global warming and wildfires: Senate hearing today at 3:00 p.m. Senate testimony on yet another example of climate amplifying feedbacks	Joseph Romm	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Global warming makes wildfires more likely and more destructive -- an amplifying climate feedback that releases more carbon into the atmosphere. The full committee of the Senate for Energy and Natural Resources is having a hearing on the subject today. You can get live video here -- click on Live Webcast. I'm looking forward to this hearing since one of the witnesses is Dr. Thomas Swetnam, Director of the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research and Professor of Dendoc ...
Topics: climate, climate science, politics (all these topics)

Science Friction U.S. climate-change research found inadequate in many ways		13 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:24 PM on 13 Sep 2007 The good news: the National Research Council finds that the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, started in 2002, has gathered some useful climate data. The bad news: well, where do we start. Less than 2 percent of the money spent by the program has gone to studying how climate change will affect humans. The NRC finds that the 13 federal agencies involved in climate research have been &q ...
Topics: climate, climate science, news, politics (all these topics)

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