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Florida faces unfavorable tide New report calls for climate action, but not everyone's listening	Miles Grant	30 May 2008	Gristmill
With more coastline than any state in the lower 48 and about a tenth of its economy ($65 billion a year) based on tourism, Florida has more to lose than any other state from the threats of global warming. Rising sea levels creep closer to coastal development. Warmer tropics fuel stronger hurricanes. And higher ocean temperatures kill coral and harm fish populations, threatening the state's $4.5 billion sportfishing industry. Plenty of reasons that a report released y ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Florida, habitat protection, legislation, severe weather, state politics (all these topics)

Muddy footprints What a ranking of cities can tell us -- and what it can't	Eric de Place	30 May 2008	Gristmill
There's a big carbon footprint report out yesterday from Brookings. It ranks cities [PDF] according to their per capita carbon emissions. Sort of, anyway. Before I pick on it a little, I guess I should mention that Pacific Northwest cities do exceptionally well. Out of the 100 cities in the analysis, Portland ranks 3rd, Boise is 5th, and Seattle 6th. There's very little difference between them. That's wonderful and all, but the analysis only covers about 50 pe ...
Topics: climate, ecological footprint, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Bush administration climate report ... at last Overdue federal report acknowledges climate-change realities	Kate Sheppard	30 May 2008	Gristmill
Under pressure from a court order, the Bush administration put out a new report on climate change yesterday that comes to the conclusion that 'most of the recent global warming is very likely due to human-generated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.' The report covers familiar (to anyone who's been paying attention) ground -- the impacts of climate change on the environment, economy, and public health. A 1990 law requires that presidents submit a report t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Checking it twice More than 1,700 scientists and economists call for deep cuts in U.S. emissions	David Roberts	30 May 2008	Gristmill
You know how some wackadoo rightwing group is always touting a new list of scientists who don't believe in global warming? And it always turns out the list is populated with a bunch of random people who either don't know they're on it or don't have the first bit of expertise on the subject? Well, the Union of Concerned Scientists is trying a different tack. They've compiled a list composed of actual Ph.D. climate scientists who have published in peer-reviewed journa ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, Union of Concerned Scientists (all these topics)

More defense EDF airs another ad in support of the Climate Security Act	Kate Sheppard	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Environmental Defense Fund is running another ad in support of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, this one in Washington, D.C., and other markets around the country. It features a talking, businessman-shaped candle melting while offering a bunch of the tired excuses one hears about why climate legislation is a bad idea. 'Sure, climate change is a problem, but let's not rush into anything,' says melting man. 'Remember: haste makes waste.' Watch the ad:
Topics: climate, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Dear Governor Greenwash Hansen: Governors aren't getting it	Guest author	29 May 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from noted climate scientist James Hansen. ----- My recent experience with governors raises a question about whether this is an effective way to communicate about climate change. (Apologies for the length -- you may skip the three tales and go to the bottom line.) Dear Governor Pawlenty [PDF] Minnesota Gov. Pawlenty presides over a population that appreciates nature. Explorer Will Steger has done a marvelous job of informing the pub ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, climate, Minnesota, Nevada, politics, state politics, Virginia (all these topics)

Green skies are the new black Two scientists offer a grim preview of where humanity is headed	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Feel like you're just not depressed enough today? Read the last bit of this Dot Earth post: During a break, I asked [Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Dr. F. Sherwood] Rowland two quick questions. The first: Given the nature of the climate and energy challenges, what is his best guess for the peak concentration of carbon dioxide? ... His answer? '1,000 parts per million,' he said. My second question was, what will that look like? 'I have no idea,' D ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Well, You Don't Say White House admits humans causing climate change		29 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:00 PM on 29 May 2008 The White House has begrudgingly admitted that "most of the recent global warming is very likely due to human generated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations." In a 271-page report -- court-ordered and four years late -- federal scientists have created a "one-stop shop" summary of potential climate impacts on the U.S. environment, economy, and public health. The report ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, progress, White House (all these topics)

Another reason to listen to Smokey Forests and fires foster fearsome feedbacks	Joseph Romm	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Previously, I looked at why the permafrost won't be perma for long. Then I looked at whether the potential destruction of the tundra represents the point of no return for the climate, necessitating that we keep atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide below 450 ppm or else risk going to 800 ppm to 1,000 ppm. Here I examine two local amplifying feedbacks that further threaten the permafrost: forests and fires. Reduced snow cover and albedo (reflectivity) in the summ ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, wilderness (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)

Blair weighs in U.K.'s former prime minister says symbolic vote on Boxer-Lieberman-Warner matters to the world	Joseph Romm	29 May 2008	Gristmill
In March, British prime minister Tony Blair launched the Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative to promote a new global agreement on climate change. Today he has an op-ed the in the Washington Post, 'Leading On Climate Change: How Action in Congress Can Move the World,' in which he argues,The climate change bill that senators are to begin debating next week is a hugely important signal of intent on behalf of U.S. legislators. Yes, negotiations could still alter t ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Reich for auctioned permits	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Robert Reich -- former Clinton Secretary of Labor, current economics public policy prof at Harvard -- was on public radio's Marketplace yesterday, stumping for 100 percent permit auctions and even, toward the end, something that sounds like cap-and-dividend: Our atmosphere belongs to all of us, and polluters should have to pay to use it. The citizens of Alaska and Alberta, Canada get yearly dividends from the oil companies that take away their natural resources. Why ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, climate (all these topics)

Ahead of the curve: States lead on climate change Great new video on state efforts to tackle global warming	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Sea Studios has put together a fantastic new video called "Ahead of the Curve: States Lead on Climate Change." Check it out: You might also remember their previous video, 'Ahead of the Curve: Business Leads on Climate Change.' Here it is:
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Link dump	Gar Lipow	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has an article in The NYT, 'The Rich Get Hungrier,' which is a good short summary of various causes of higher food prices and increased world hunger, and why they are related even though not the same thing. An article on carbon traders and carbon lobbying further illustrates the point I've made before, that instituting GHG trading is a way of growing a whole new carbon lobby to join with the existing fossil fuel one. Last ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, food (all these topics)

Stonewall Johnson	David Roberts	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Bush Era:
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, jackassery, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Heating heaven Early appearances of climate change in popular literature	Erik Hoffner	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Last week, I picked up a copy of the newly reissued 1971 Ursula Le Guin classic The Lathe of Heaven, which takes place in dystopic, post-collapse Portland, Ore., circa 2002 or so. It's typical brilliance from Le Guin, of whom I can't read enough, but I was interested to see that the novel begins by describing Mt. Hood devoid of snow due to the greenhouse effect. The climate is entirely different from that of the 1960s, with blue skies a thing of the past and rainfall pa ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, green living, Portland (all these topics)

On your Markey Rep. Ed Markey unveils ambitious new climate legislation	Kate Sheppard	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Rep. Ed Markey, chair of the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, unveiled new climate legislation on Wednesday morning, which he says will take 'the innovative actions needed to ensure a greener, healthier, and more prosperous future.' The plan, which Markey will introduce formally next Tuesday, calls for an 85 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2050, and a number of provisions to encourage technological innovatio ...
Topics: climate, Congress, Ed Markey, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, Muckraker, news, 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)

Environmental Defense Fund, on defense Group airing ads in support of Climate Security Act in states with swing-vote senators	Kate Sheppard	28 May 2008	Gristmill
The ad wars over the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act continue: Environmental Defense Fund has just released new ads in support of the legislation. They show a man being struck by falling barrels of oil, telling viewers to call their senators and ask them to support the bill. 'By telling special interests they can't pollute for free, the Climate Security Act will spur investment in cleaner technology, it will create manufacturing jobs and help end our oil a ...
Topics: advertising, climate, Environmental Defense Fund, legislation, Muckraker, news (all these topics)

You Could Hear a Pinniped Drop Walruses should be threatened species, says litigious green group		28 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 28 May 2008 Having seen no action on a petition from last year, the Center for Biological Diversity says it will sue to force the U.S. Interior Department to consider listing the walrus as a threatened species. Walruses do all of their resting between foraging trips, breeding, and chillaxing on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing. And "[a]s the sea ice recedes, so ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

They Could Talk the Legs off a Chair Exxon shareholders reject resolution to shake up management		28 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:55 AM on 28 May 2008 Exxon shareholders have rejected a high-profile resolution to strip one management role from current Chair-'n'-CEO Rex Tillerson and hire an independent chairperson. The influential Rockefeller family, along with various other investors, had pushed for the split. "Despite top-notch individual directors, [Exxon's] record over the last decade, particularly regardi ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, news (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)

Zap a lobbyist	David Roberts	28 May 2008	Gristmill
A lobbyist and a lie detector.
Topics: climate, funnies, lobbying, lying liars, politics, websites (all these topics)

Growth industry Club for Growth starts campaign to derail Lieberman-Warner	Kate Sheppard	27 May 2008	Gristmill
The Club for Growth -- a conservative group 'dedicated to helping elect pro-growth, pro-freedom candidates through political contributions and issue advocacy campaigns' -- is already waging war on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, slated to hit the Senate floor June 2. But instead of going after the bill itself, they're targeting individual senators who seem likely to vote in favor of the bill. They've taken out $250,000 in radio and television ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Climate and service Obama's commencement speech calls for service to the country, planet on climate front	Kate Sheppard	27 May 2008	Gristmill
David beat me to a post on Barack Obama's commencement speech at Wesleyan on Sunday. The part about climate change and clean energy was good, but what I found most encouraging was at the beginning, when climate change was cited, along with hunger, war, and economic strife, as an area where our personal lives and the life of the nation should be aligned: [Y]ou are about to enter a world that makes it easy to get caught up in the notion that there are actually two dif ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, education, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

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