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Who is being misleading? A Post columnist's defenders can't salvage his poor cap-and-trade logic	Ryan Avent	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Tyler Cowen weighs in on the cap-and-trade debate. He focuses on my criticism of Samuelson's seeming failure to understand the relationship between cap-and-trade and a carbon tax: But Samuelson is correct here and Avent is misleading. When there is uncertainty about the location of the social optimum, and uncertainty about elasticities, a carbon tax and cap-and-trade are by no means equivalent. If you see very high costs from setting the binding cap too l ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, messaging (all these topics)

Nuclear questions for Lovins What should I ask the efficiency guru about nuclear power?	David Roberts	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Amory Lovins. Photo: © Judy Hill Amory Lovins is on the warpath against nuclear power, battling the industry PR push that says nuclear is a viable climate solution. He's got a new report, co-authored with Imran Sheikh, called 'The Nuclear Illusion' [PDF]. Spinning off from that report are a Newsweek article called 'Missing the Market Meltdown' and an article on the RMI site called 'Forget Nuclear.' I was on a conference call with Lovins earlier today in whic ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy, interview, nuclear power (all these topics)

The truth will set you free Democrats are undermining the strongest message behind climate policy	David Roberts	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In this post, I argued that the best, simplest, and most impactful message for advocates of climate legislation is this: Good climate policy will rescue American families from a sinking ship. I meant to add that the Dems not only seem to miss the power of this message, but are by all appearances working to undermine it. What do I mean? Well, core to the message is a simple truth: Fossil energy costs are going up. They're going to keep going up. The reasons are comp ...
Topics: climate, energy, fossil fuels, gas prices, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Jumping ship from the USS Fossil Climate action advocates need a simple, compelling message on costs	David Roberts	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
As this lamentable New York Times piece demonstrates, advocates for action on climate change have lost the framing battle. If they don't want to lose the war for America's future, they need to step back, coalesce around a simple message, and get it out to voters in a disciplined way. The corporatist wing of the Republican party has a simple, compelling populist message: capping emissions will hurt American families. It will raise the price of energy -- gasoline, he ...
Topics: climate, energy, fossil fuels, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, messaging (all these topics)

Tuesday link dump A little bit of this, a smidge of that	David Roberts	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The ol' browser's getting a little clogged up. Time to stop thinkin' and start linkin'! Yee-haw. ----- Eco-friendly bombs! A couple of crack economists at Environmental Defense Fund synthesized the results of several different economic models projecting the impact of cap-and-trade legislation. Their conclusion? A business-as-usual approach, continuing with today's policies, puts the U.S. economy on a path to reach $26 trillion in January 2030. With a cap on the ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, economy, energy, public transportation, websites (all these topics)

Fear of the day	David Roberts	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
What if the anticipation of carbon legislation has driven more investment away from coal than actual carbon legislation will?
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation (all these topics)

Nukes of hazard The self-limiting future of nuclear power, Part I	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
My analysis on nuclear power for the Center for American Progress Action Fund is finally finished and online. I think you will find it useful because it has many links to primary sources and tries to avoid the typical discussions by nuclear proponents and opponents, focusing instead on the rapidly escalating cost of nuclear power. My point in this paper is not to say nuclear power will play no role in the fight to stay below 450 ppm of atmospheric CO2 concentrations ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Nice way of life. Shame if something happened to it.	David Roberts	31 May 2008	Gristmill
According to ACCCE, if we don't use coal, we'll have to wave goodbye to the American way of life:
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy, lying liars, messaging (all these topics)

'We're the Saudi Arabia of coal' Obama & Clinton shill for coal in Montana	Kate Sheppard	30 May 2008	Gristmill
The Flathead Beacon in Montana pinned down interviews with both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ahead of the state's Tuesday primary. The paper asked questions on domestic oil and gas drilling, the preservation of public lands, and coal. The whole thing is interesting, but the candidates' responses on coal were the most notable: Q: But what role should fossil fuels play, specifically in Montana, where we've got vast coal reserves? Do you think, in the short term or ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, coal, energy, Hillary Clinton, Montana, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The first 100 days Obama says climate and energy would be top priorities at start of his admin	Kate Sheppard	30 May 2008	Gristmill
It's a bit buried here, but Marc Ambinder notes that at a fundraiser in Denver on Wednesday night, Barack Obama said his first-100-day priorities would include sending a 'signal to the world' on energy and climate change. Wish that were a bit more specific, but hey, at least it's in there.
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The cowardly lion McCain to skip another crucial climate vote	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Unbelievable. Sen. John McCain -- who just weeks ago said of the Climate Security Act, "I hope it will pass, and I hope the entire Congress will join in supporting it and the President of the United States would sign it" -- now says he won't show up to vote on it. He won't vote against it, mind you. Won't go on record. Won't take a stand. He just won't show. 'I have not been there for a number of votes. The same thing happened in the campaign of ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, jackassery, legislation, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Why a climate bill in 2008? Part IV Time to kick the oil habit	Tony Kreindler	28 May 2008	Gristmill
This is the latest in a series on why it is important to push hard for climate legislation this year. Over the past few months, I've made the case for passing climate legislation in 2008: We don't want to squander the current momentum, we simply can't afford to wait, and while we do, we only prolong a dangerous catch-22. Now we're finally on the doorstep of Senate action on a comprehensive climate change bill. Floor debate over the Climate Security Act (S. 3036) ...
Topics: climate, energy, gas prices, legislation, oil, politics (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)

He's Got the Remedy Jason Mraz sings the praises of a simpler life	Sarah van Schagen	23 May 2008	Grist Feature
Jason Mraz is strumming up support for sustainability. Jason Mraz may still be the geek in the pink, but these days, the pop-rock-rhymer is hoping to distance himself from his cigarette-puffin', girl-chasin' past and move toward a simpler, more sustainable life. Since returning from his Mr. A-Z tour two years ago, Mraz has focused his attention on greener, non-music-related pastures. Last year ...
Topics: climate, energy, green living, interview, music (all these topics)

CO2 you later Electric emissions growth outpaces generation in 2007	Sean Casten	21 May 2008	Gristmill
The EIA just released data on 2007 that shows total electricity generation increased by 2.5 percent in 2007, but total CO2 emissions from the electric sector increased by 3 percent. That's right: the electricity sector, already the single largest contributor to U.S. CO2 emissions, is increasing its CO2 intensity. Intriguingly, this increase has come about despite a 25 billion kWh increase in wind and nuclear generation in 2007, as the gains from those zero-carbon sour ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, wind power (all these topics)

Town meeting fun Small-town politics meets big-time energy crisis	Katharine Wroth	21 May 2008	Gristmill
Last night I went to the town meeting where I live, which -- well, if you've never lived anywhere podunk enough to have a town meeting, you're missing out. This one was just as I remember them from my childhood, though PowerPoint has replaced mimeographed pages: ambition, exhaustion, confusion, and the one crusty, bearded guy who has to argue every point. After a presentation by the head of the municipally owned utility, a tall, thin audience member in a tan suit an ...
Topics: climate, energy, energy at home, green living, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Deloitte survey of consumers and utility regulators	David Roberts	20 May 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, consultant firm Deloitte released two new surveys, one of consumers and one of utility regulators. There's some fairly interesting stuff in there. First off, some 87 percent of utility regulators expect the cost of producing electricity to rise next year. Why? Here's what they attribute it to: Fuel prices (35 percent). Environmental compliance (23 percent). Capital costs (21 percent). Inflation (11 percent). Asked to rate options by thei ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, energy at home, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

Weather or Not U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions rising		20 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:00 PM on 20 May 2008 U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions increased 1.6 percent in 2007, according to the Energy Information Administration. Factors at fault, according to the EIA: wacky weather that increased the need for heating and cooling, and "a higher carbon intensity of electricity supply." (Our electricity supply is carbon-intensive? Who knew?) The agency was quick to point out that GDP grew 2.7 percent in 2007, so " ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, severe weather, United States (all these topics)

Energy outage Senate Energy Committee members wring their hands about the cost of climate action	Kate Sheppard	20 May 2008	Gristmill
The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee held a hearing this morning on the economic effects of global climate change legislation, and as expected, it was largely devoted to stoking fears about the potential costs of meaningful action. 'On the extremes, models have been used to show that legislation will have massive disruptions to the economy and cause widespread unemployment,' Committee Chair Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said in his opening remarks. 'They hav ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable Clean energy kills	David Roberts	19 May 2008	Gristmill
'You try to cap emissions and you kill more people than die if you don't cap emissions. We will have killed people. We care about this issue the same way why we care about abortion. It kills people.' -- Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, founder and national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, quotables, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Is Big Coal like Big Tobacco? Suing energy companies for global warming damages	David Roberts	19 May 2008	Gristmill
I don't have strong opinions on suing energy companies over global warming, but the notion does seem somewhat suspect. For starters, they don't really have enough money to materially compensate the affected class of people -- namely, everyone in the world. Legal liability taken with any seriousness at all would quickly bankrupt them. I'm all for imposing new costs on companies that have been socializing risk and privatizing profit for years now, but this kind of cost i ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, litigation (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade or carbon tax? Both! Five ways BC's carbon tax shift can strengthen Cap and Trade	Alan Durning	16 May 2008	Gristmill
The Vancouver Sun gives some ink to a cluster of issues that I've been pondering of late: how BC's carbon tax shift fits with Cap and Trade. I'm famously infatuated with carbon tax shifting. I'm also a zealot for auctioned Cap and Trade. The good news is that with careful policy design, Cap and Tax can be better than either Cap or Tax. The Tax toughens the Cap, the way steel rebar strengthens concrete. The bad news is that without careful design, the two could weaken e ...
Topics: climate, energy (all these topics)

Our tails get in the way The problems and principles of energy descent	Sharon Astyk	15 May 2008	Gristmill
'How did you get there, Roo?' asked Piglet. 'On Tigger's back! And Tiggers can't climb downwards, because their tails get in the way, only upwards, and Tigger forgot about that when we started, and he's only just remembered. So we've got to stay here for ever and ever -- unless we go higher. What did you say, Tigger? Oh, Tigger says if we go higher we shan't be able to see Piglet's house so well, so we're going to stop here.' -- A.A. Milne, 'The House At Pooh Corn ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, energy, fossil fuels (all these topics)

'2013' McCain outlines priorities for first term; climate and energy make the cut	Kate Sheppard	15 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain is in Ohio today, where he gave a speech this morning about what he plans to accomplish by 2013. Progress on climate and energy is part of his vision for a better world at the end of his first term: The United States is well on the way to independence from foreign sources of oil -- progress that has not only begun to alleviate the environmental threat posed from climate change, but has greatly improved our security as well. A cap-and-trade system has bee ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Electric shock Big increases coming in electric costs	Sean Casten	14 May 2008	Gristmill
From the 'Things Grist readers already knew' file comes this report from ClimateWire ($ub. req'd) that price shocks are looming for power plant operators, even before the costs of carbon are factored in. A few excerpts below the fold:[F]rom the utility industry's point of view, the coming price on a ton of carbon dioxide pollution couldn't have come at a worse time. ... 'There's one really basic, I think really important fact, which is that we don't really have full t ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, coal, energy (all these topics)

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