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A Little Light Music
U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon |
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14 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| A Little Light Music U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon The world is seeing the energy-efficient light: a U.S. coalition including Philips Lighting and the Natural Resources Defense Council will push to phase out incandescent bulbs by 2016. ... |
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| Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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No Talk and No Action
Why the Montreal climate summit was too painful to watch |
Bill McKibben |
12 Dec 2005 |
Soapbox |
| I've been to climate meetings in locales that stretch from Kyoto to The Hague, Mexico City to the Maldives. It would have been awfully easy to get in the old hybrid and drive two hours north to Montreal for the big climate-change confab that wrapped up this weekend -- if nothing else, it's a city I love deeply. But I couldn't bring myself to do it in the end. I knew it was going to be too ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, Canada, climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Charlie's Angles
Prince Charles sends veiled message to White House on climate change |
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04 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Charlie's Angles Prince Charles sends veiled message to White House on climate change Britain's Prince Charles has made it clear he views global warming as the direst problem facing the world community. The $6 million question has been: Would he say as much to the notoriously intransigent George Bush during a state dinner this week at the White House? You could cut the diplomatic tension with a fine ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Pact or Fiction?
New Asia-Pacific climate pact is long on PR, short on substance |
Amanda Griscom Little |
04 Aug 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Staunch U.S. allies, enviro activists, and just about everyone else was caught flat-footed last week when the U.S., Australia, and four Asian countries unveiled a new pact intended to help curb greenhouse-gas emissions. In the days since, some details about the surprise alliance have trickled out, but its mission and intended impact remain murky. Known as the Asia-Pacific Par ... |
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| Topics: Asia, Australia, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, Muckraker, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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It's a Lap Dog's Life
Blair heads to D.C. to beg for Bush's support on G8 climate agenda |
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02 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| It's a Lap Dog's Life Blair heads to D.C. to beg for Bush's support on G8 climate agenda U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair has put his political life on the line to support the Bush administration numerous times, citing the "special relationship" between the two countries. Ha ha, sucka! Next week Blair will fly to Washington, D.C., to beg the Bushies to support his ambitious agenda for July's ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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The Chuck Stops Here
An interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican from Nebraska, on his new climate bills |
Amanda Griscom Little |
01 Mar 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Sen. Chuck Hagel. A possible GOP presidential contender in 2008, Nebraskan Sen. Chuck Hagel has lately sprung to the public stage as one of the leading Republican voices on climate change. In mid-February, he introduced three bills designed to be economic jumper cables that would boost the development of clean-energy technologies -- one focusing on inte ... |
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| Topics: climate, interview, legislation, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Operation Squander
As Kyoto goes live, U.S. green groups offer tepid response |
Amanda Griscom Little |
16 Feb 2005 |
Muckraker |
| It's an action-packed week on the climate front: The Kyoto Protocol finally goes into effect today throughout the vast majority of the industrialized world (the U.S. conspicuously not included), and Capitol Hill is awash in climate-related assaults and initiatives. As Kyoto and climate bills heat up, greens' response is tepid. Congress is facing a double whammy of President Bush's m ... |
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| Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, Muckraker, National Environmental Trust, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Sign Here to Save the Planet
Join a people's campaign to ratify the Kyoto Protocol |
Ross Gelbspan |
16 Feb 2005 |
Soapbox |
| The much-discussed Kyoto Protocol takes effect today, Feb. 16. In the face of the United States' continuing refusal to ratify the international agreement, a group of progressive activists is launching a drive to gather millions of signatures from U.S. citizens for a "People's Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty." Ross Gelbspan, a Grist contributor and author of tw ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Where Do We Go, Where Do We Go Now?
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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27 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Thursday, 27 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Here's the different thing about this conference. Although participants spanned the generations, it was organized in large measure by 20 students here at Middlebury ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It
Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation |
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26 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation And the lion shall lie down with the lamb indeed. A strange political alliance is taking shape in Washington, D.C., as neoconservatives anxious to sap political strength from their Middle Eastern nemeses form common cause with enviros anxious to slow global warming. What unites them? A desire to reduce oi ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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26 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Wednesday, 26 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. The bad boys of American environmentalism made their case this morning, and they made it well. By the time Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus had finished pre ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Changing the Climate-Change Climate
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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25 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Tuesday, 25 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. A crisp, cold, blue-sky New England day, fresh snow on the ground, and everything right with the world. Except that last night, as I was preparing to attend a thre ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Axis of Intransigence
U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks |
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19 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks The U.S. delegation to an upcoming global conference on natural disasters is pushing to have references to global warming removed from the U.N. action plan to be ratified there. The document cites global warming as one factor among many leading to "a future where disasters could increasingly threaten the wor ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics) |
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And Now for Something Completely Different
An in-depth response to 'The Death of Environmentalism' |
Carl Pope |
13 Jan 2005 |
Main Dish |
| An in-depth response to "The Death of Environmentalism" By Carl Pope 13 Jan 2005 In December 2004, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope distributed this response to the essay "The Death of Environmentalism." Get the backstory here. There Is Something Different About Global Warming Dear Environmental Grant-Maker: You may have recently received a memorandum entitled "The Death of Environmentalism" by Michael Shellenber ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Hagelian Dialectic
Kyoto opponent Hagel may ally with Blair for new climate agreement |
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16 Dec 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Hagelian Dialectic Kyoto opponent Hagel may ally with Blair for new climate agreement U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to cajole the U.S. into doing something about climate change -- and shake off his rep as a Bush "poodle" -- may have found an ally in Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). Hagel met with Blair this week in London at the PM's request to discuss the kinds of initiatives the countries ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Putting the 'Pact' in 'No Impact'
Tony Blair trying to entice U.S. into 'Kyoto-lite' climate treaty |
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10 Dec 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Putting the "Pact" in "No Impact" Tony Blair trying to entice U.S. into "Kyoto-lite" climate treaty With much of the industrialized world heaping scorn on the U.S. for spurning the recently ratified Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration may soon get a chance to regain a smidgeon of international cred on the climate-change issue. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in an effo ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Buenos Hot Aires
U.S. professes bafflement at international ire over climate change |
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08 Dec 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Buenos Hot Aires U.S. professes bafflement at international ire over climate change "I'm not sure why we're considered the 'bad boys'," said puzzled U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson at this week's U.N. climate change convention in Buenos Aires. The conference -- the last such meeting to take place before the Kyoto Protocol goes into effect in February -- has featured sharp criticism of U.S. ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics) |
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The McCain Mutiny
McCain criticizes Bush admin over climate change -- again |
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16 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The McCain Mutiny McCain criticizes Bush admin over climate change -- again Though Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) backed President Bush's reelection campaign, yesterday he reiterated his charge that the Bush administration is in the wrong on the issue of climate change, calling its stance "terribly disappointing." Today, McCain will convene a Senate hearing on rapid warming in the Arctic, with hopes that it will als ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Solution Dilution
Bush admin opposes recommendations in Arctic climate-change report |
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05 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Solution Dilution Bush admin opposes recommendations in Arctic climate-change report Last week, details emerged about a comprehensive study on the accelerated and destructive effects of global warming on the Arctic, involving more than 300 scientists from eight nations and six indigenous tribes. Now some members of an eight-nation negotiating team are accusing the U.S. of working to water down recommendations based on the ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Easter-Funny
Don't bet on Bush tackling climate change in a second term |
Michael Oppenheimer |
21 Oct 2004 |
Soapbox |
| RUSSIA MOVES TO RATIFY THE KYOTO PROTOCOL CALIFORNIA IMPOSES GREENHOUSE-GAS STANDARDS ON CARS NORTHEAST STATES TO IMPOSE GREENHOUSE-GAS CAP EASTERBROOK SAYS "SECOND-TERM BUSH WILL BE THE PRESIDENT WHO IMPOSES GLOBAL-WARMING CONTROLS" Could this man be a climate hero? Guess which headline is bogus? The winner gets a free transcript of the portion of the third Bush-Kerry debate whe ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Hansen Bothers
More climate scientists come out against Bush |
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19 Oct 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The Hansen Bothers More climate scientists come out against Bush Andrew Revkin of The New York Times has written what may be the definitive account of the battle over science politicization in and around the Bush administration. The broad outlines are familiar -- the science community is more politically mobilized than it has been in decades, outraged at what it sees as the Bush administration's disregard f ... |
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| Topics: climate, James Hansen, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Boilerplate Tectonics
Bush and Kerry discuss their positions on science |
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16 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Boilerplate Tectonics Bush and Kerry discuss their positions on science In the latest issue of the journal Nature, President Bush and John Kerry each respond to 15 questions about science and related topics. Because the responses are written, neither candidate sounds like himself -- there are no Bushian malapropisms or Kerryan layered qualifiers -- and for the most part they simply regurgitate campaign-trail b ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Status D'oh!
Salon.com Delves into Global Warming |
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10 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The Status D'oh! Salon.com Delves into Global Warming A new trio of articles on Salon.com does a nice job of laying out the current state of play on global warming, though its conclusions will come as no surprise to regular Grist readers: President Bush has been playing what the National Wildlife Federation's Jeremy Symons calls "whack-a-mole" with federal scientists, trying to obscure their consensu ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Good Times, Good Times
Federal Report on Global Warming Produces Beltway Drama |
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27 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Good Times, Good Times Federal Report on Global Warming Produces Beltway Drama When The New York Times reported yesterday on a new Bush administration report to Congress which acknowledged the human causes of global warming, characterizing it as an abrupt shift in policy, some Beltway wags speculated that the newspaper was trying to box the administration in and embarrass it. Today brought evidence in support of such spec ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Clash of the Titans
An excerpt from Boiling Point highlights a clash of interests over climate change |
Ross Gelbspan |
21 Jul 2004 |
Arts and Minds |
| Boiling Point By Ross Gelbspan, Basic Books, 256 pages, July 2004 Journalist Ross Gelbspan's new book, Boiling Point (out in late July from Basic Books), reveals how politicians, big oil and coal, the media, and even activists have fueled the climate crisis -- and how we might still avert disaster. This excerpt traces what Gelbspan describes as a corrupt relationshi ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, oil, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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