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Notable quotable Ragin' Cajun for Gore	David Roberts	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'I think if I was Senator Obama I would say the biggest economic problem we face is the biggest national security problem and the biggest environmental problem. And if I were him, I would ask Al Gore to serve as his vice president, his energy czar, in his administration to reduce our consumption and reliance on foreign energy sources. That would send a signal to the world, to American people, to Congress, to everybody, that America's getting serious about this horrendo ...
Topics: Al Gore, Barack Obama, climate, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Money changes everything Everyone wants a piece of the climate bill pie	Joseph Romm	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The debate over the Climate Security Act bill has made it clear that trillions are at stake in global warming legislation. No surprise, then, that the Senate power brokers don't want Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.) Environment and Public Works committee to have the only say on who gets what. E&E Daily ($ub. req'd) has the story of how the climate bill is likely to have a much longer and far more tangled journey next year:Next year's Senate climate debate is shaping up t ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Corn polls New surveys suggest changing views on biofuels	Ron Steenblik	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Biofuel policy has made it to the polls. Yesterday, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a nonprofit, non-partisan educational foundation based in Washington, D.C., released the results of a survey (PDF) conducted at the beginning of this month which claims to have found that most Americans -- 'including those in the Farm Belt' -- want Congress to reduce or eliminate the mandated use of corn ethanol. In response to the key question, 'What do you think Congr ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, climate, energy, ethanol, European Union, politics (all these topics)

Action on Solar Investment Tax Credit Delayed Lack of credit threatens solar industry	Michael Moynihan	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the NDN Blog. The failure of the Senate to obtain cloture on the Solar Investment Tax Credit -- coming on the heels of the collapse of climate change legislation last Friday -- should send a wake up call to the environment and clean technology communities that a new more forceful strategy is needed to make progress on climate change and energy independence. At a moment when the U.S. economy is suffering from the effects of a full blown oil sh ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Why not a revenue-neutral carbon cap? The silver-lining of Lieberman-Warner's demise	Peter Barnes	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The demise of the Lieberman-Warner climate bill may not be a bad thing if it spurs environmentalists and politicians to ask: Is this the best way to cap carbon? Let's be clear what Lieberman-Warner was. Yes, it contained a carbon cap. But mostly it was about spending or giving away trillions of dollars. It was, as Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) put it, 'the mother and father of all earmarks,' and every lobbyist in town was at the trough. The bill sought to allocate a vast ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, climate, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Should the World Bank get the coal shoulder? House ponders investment in multilateral clean tech fund; greens argue it isn't all that green	Kate Sheppard	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Last week, the House Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology (the HFCSDIMPTT for short) held a hearing about whether the United States should invest in a multilateral fund to support the deployment of clean energy technology in the developing world. There's been talk of World Bank investment in clean tech for years; now they're asking G8 nations to pony up. The hearing stemmed from a Bush administration p ...
Topics: climate, Muckraker, news, politics, tech, World Bank (all these topics)

Wait, they're not the same?!	David Roberts	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In the Boston Globe, Carol Browner and Bob Sussman construct a short and powerful critique of McCain's climate/energy positions, tacking against the kind of foolishness that has addled the brains of the folks over at the L.A. Times.
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, John McCain, messaging, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A Ruminant With a Phew! Vaccine, nut oil may cut cow belching's contribution to climate change		11 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:29 AM on 11 Jun 2008 The worldwide race to quell livestock belching is on! Earlier this month, New Zealand researchers came one step closer to developing a vaccine that would reduce the methane emitted from belching livestock. Ruminant livestock burp and fart significant quantities of methane -- a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. "Our agricultural research o ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, news, scientific research (all these topics)

'Partisan bickering' It's long past time to assign responsibility for stymied climate legislation	David Roberts	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In an otherwise insightful piece on the failure of the Lieberman-Warner bill, Eric Pooley says this: It would have taken a truly great floor debate to begin resolving some of those difficult areas -- a half dozen thorny deal-breakers (how to contain costs, what to do about China) that need to be figured out before any such bill can pass. But not much of that table setting took place last week, because the debate never made it past the partisan bickering and eco ...
Topics: climate, jackassery, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Frustrated? Let's write our own climate legislation! A 'sense of the House' resolution to adopt 350 ppm as America's official climate target	Guest author	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Colin Beavan, otherwise known as No Impact Man. His family's year-long sustainable living project is the subject of a forthcoming book from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He blogs at No Impact Man. ----- This may seem hokey, but I'm so far beyond frustrated with the legislators of this country that I've gone and written my own piece of climate change legislation. My bill is simple. Once you get past all the 'whereas' and so forth, it simply ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, Ed Markey, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

Stronger, simpler, fairer Upward from the Climate Security Act	Patrick Mazza	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Climate Solutions Policy Director K.C. Golden has some thoughts on where to go with national climate legislation after last week's down vote on the Climate Security Act. As thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped through the nation's capital last week, the U.S. Senate tied itself in a procedural knot, preventing a vote on the substance of the Climate Security Act -- the first meaningful climate legislation to reach the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid c ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation (all these topics)

IEA report, Part 2 I've got the 450-ppm solution about right	Joseph Romm	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Part 1 discussed the basic conclusion of the new International Energy Agency report -- cutting global emissions in half by 2050 is not costly. In fact, the total shift in investment needed to stabilize at 450 ppm is only about 1.1 percent of GDP per year, and that is not a 'cost' or hit to GDP, because much of that investment goes toward saving expensive fuel. In this post, I will discuss the basic solution IEA is proposing. I will also start to look at how the report ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Global boiling Senators ignore the warning signs	Brad Johnson	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Think Progress Wonk Room. Recently, the United States Senate has taken several votes on building a green economy that moves away from fossil fuel dependence, creates new green industry, and addresses global warming. Each time, a minority of senators blocked the way. On Friday, 38 senators filibustered mandatory greenhouse-gas reduction legislation (S. 3036). This morning, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) joined 41 Republicans to filibuster the Cons ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Notable quotable I procrastinate too, but this is ridiculous	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'I think we can get a global agreement on climate change during my presidency -- just so you know.' -- President George W. Bush
Topics: climate, dumbassery, George Bush, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Victoria Falling Climate change, deforestation, erosion take toll on African landscape		10 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:01 PM on 10 Jun 2008 A new United Nations atlas depicts alarming changes to Africa's landscape. On a continent that produces a mere 4 percent of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, significant landmarks are taking a hit from climate change: Lake Chad and Lake Victoria are shrinking each year, and Mt. Kilimanjaro could be snow-free by 2020. The deforestation rate in Africa is twice the world aver ...
Topics: Africa, agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, deforestation, news, United Nations (all these topics)

In the clearing stands a Boxer Boxer op-ed argues the Climate Security Act vote was a big step forward	Kate Sheppard	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wrote an op-ed in today's San Jose Mercury News on the failed Climate Security Act that she championed in the Senate. In it, she argues that last week's vote was an important advancement. '[O]ur strong vote proves that we are moving in the right direction,' she writes. She also notes that other landmark environmental laws took quite a bit of time to pass: Our generation has been handed a tremendou ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

We'd Like to Thank the Academies Science academies of 13 nations urge G8 to tackle climate change		10 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:27 AM on 10 Jun 2008 Ahead of the G8 summit in Japan next month, the science academies of 13 nations, including the United States, urged the G8 nations as well as Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa (G8+5) to agree to cut world greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2050. "We urge G8+5 leaders to make maximum efforts to carry this forward and commit to these emission reduct ...
Topics: climate, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Carbon pricing: Not Archimedes' lever Putting a price on carbon is only the first step in energy policy	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
There's certainly a great deal of logic to what Ezra says here -- it would be nice if an upstream price on carbon would automatically rejigger the price of everything, right down to chips and candy bars. What could be a more gratifying solution than moving the behavior of every single consumer in a rational direction by applying pressure to a single policy lever? I hope it's that easy. I suspect carbon prices will not be like dye in water, diffusing equally everywher ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy (all these topics)

Ne Gus ultra Gus Speth chats about his new book and increasingly radical green views	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Gus Speth. When Gus Speth gets radical, it's time to start digging bunkers. For more than 30 years, Speth has labored as the consummate environmental insider, having founded an environmental think tank (World Resources Institute), co-founded a major green group (Natural Resources Defense Council), advised a president (Clinton), administered a United Nations agency (U.N. Development Program), and taught in the high echelons of American academia (Georgeto ...
Topics: books, climate, economy, environmental movement, greenhouse-gas emissions, interview (all these topics)

Say goodbye to the lungs of the earth	JMG	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Amazon deforestation exploding. The agrofuels lobby assures us that it has nothing to do with them.
Topics: Amazon, climate, deforestation (all these topics)

Sizzle this summer New mockumentary on climate science, dialogue, and societal change is opening soon	Erik Hoffner	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Filmmaker Randy Olson has just completed Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy, a hilarious new mockumentary thickly peopled with real life climate scientists, activists, skeptics, and a rollicking plot-line that could bring a lot more people into the global warming tent. I found it refreshing and a good follow-up to the Gore movie, because it's not so much about the scientists or the celebrities telling us why we should care. Instead, it's fun, watchable, and about real peop ...
Topics: climate, funnies, green living, movies (all these topics)

The Price of Emissions in China China bank offers draft plan to reduce nation's emissions		09 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:43 PM on 09 Jun 2008 China's central bank has taken a first stab at a national emissions-reduction plan that could apply to various pollutants. A draft emissions-trading proposal unveiled to top officials on Friday suggests that China determine a national goal for reducing pollution, have regional authorities determine quotas for businesses, and put in place a system with controls at the nation ...
Topics: carbon trading, China, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

Belly up! There is such a thing as a free lunch	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
You frequently hear that 'there's no such thing as a free lunch,' particularly when it comes to climate and energy policy. It's a mark of 'seriousness' to solemnly proclaim that it's all going to cost a lot of money and be very, very difficult. But the free-lunch canard is just another way of restating the central and most deleterious myth of conventional economics: full employment, the notion that our capital and energy resources are optimally deployed, and thus ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, messaging (all these topics)

Letter it all out Swing-vote Democrats explain why they oppose the Climate Security Act	Kate Sheppard	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
On Friday, 10 Democratic senators wrote a letter [PDF] to Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) outlining the reasons why they would not have voted in favor of the Climate Security Act. Democratic leaders pulled the bill from the floor last week after it failed to muster enough votes to move forward. The senators who signed the letter are from key energy-producing and manufacturing states, and argue that the bill would impact their const ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

A new part of the No Duh curriculum Peer-reviewed study finds that right-wing think tanks have stymied environmental progress	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
To file under 'academic demonstration of what we already knew,' here's an abstract from a new paper in the journal Environmental Politics: Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed 'sceptics' claim to be unbiased analysts combating 'junk science.' This study quantitatively analyses 141 English-language environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005. We find that over 92 per cent of these books, mos ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, messaging (all these topics)

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