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Notable quotable Bushism will endure	David Roberts	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'There has occasionally been voiced the misimpression that a future administration will take a significantly different attitude towards climate than this administration.' -- deputy national security adviser Dan Price
Topics: climate, funnies, national security, politics, quotables (all these topics)

He rules their world	David Roberts	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
On the Drudge Report homepage right now: Gotta love those scare quotes.
Topics: climate change skepticism, websites, climate (all these topics)

Tough but fair criticism BBC program on Kyoto offsets	Gar Lipow	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The idea behind offsets is that you pay someone else to reduce emissions on your behalf when they can make the reductions more cheaply than you can. The leading offset method use to fight climate chaos is the Clean Development Mechanism. This is an extremely controversial topic, with many (including me) contending it does not work. The BBC has an excellent radio broadcast covering both sides of the controversy. The broadcaster concludes that offsets don't make sense. But ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

We Spend That Before Breakfast Mere $45 trillion needed to tackle climate change, says IEA		06 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 06 Jun 2008 A G8-backed goal to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 would take a global clean-technology investment of merely $45 trillion, the International Energy Agency said in a report Friday. That's about 1.1 percent of the world's average annual gross domestic product through 2050; more overwhelmingly, it's also about three times the size of the current U.S. economy. To meet ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, G8, news (all these topics)

LW post-mortem Lieberman-Warner's failure this year underdetermines next year's efforts	David Roberts	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I suppose as an enviro-blogger I'm supposed to have something insightful to say about the death of the Lieberman-Warner bill. Yet I find myself strangely apathetic. So much buildup, so much debate, and then ... hell, it was just another Republican filibuster. Why did I waste all those brain cells in the first place? It's not like I have many more to spare. I guess I'm inclined to say that this is actually the best possible outcome. It looked to me like Dems stumbled ...
Topics: politics, climate, legislation (all these topics)

Special interested Top Senate recipients of fossil-fuel money behind climate-bill stall tactics	Kate Sheppard	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The good folks over at Muckety.com (maybe we're long-lost cousins ...) put together an awesome interactive map detailing the connections between the fossil-fuel industries and some of the folks behind the death of climate legislation in the Senate this week. Check it out: muckMapWidth='645'; muckMapHeight='500'; muckMapCtx='http://www.muckety.com/Java'; muckMapProps={restore:'373C5F82BB5B7B482452879A36FA3E0C.map',autoGroup:'7,11'}; Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Unfair and balanced Is NYT's Revkin pushing unjustified 'balance' in the Senate climate debate coverage?	Joseph Romm	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I like and respect Andy Revkin a great deal. He is one of the best reporters on climate and certainly the most prolific climate journalist now that he has his Dot Earth blog. But I must take exception to his recent posting, 'Climate Debate: Democracy In Action?' You would never know from his post that one side in the debate was desperately trying to save future generations from catastrophic warming and the other side was simply doing shameless political posturing. He ...
Topics: climate, John McCain, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Shenanigans in the House Republicans try to stoke Dem discord on climate legislation in the House	Kate Sheppard	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Amidst the chaos in the Senate over climate legislation, Rep. Ed Markey introduced his climate legislation in the House on Thursday. House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio), hoping to take advantage of apparent disarray within the Democratic Party, has dared Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to push Markey's bill to the floor. He wrote a letter (PDF) to the speaker calling the bill 'reckless and inappropriate,' but urging her to take it to the floor in hopes o ...
Topics: climate, Ed Markey, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

We're Changing the Climb-It Climber scales New York Times building with climate message		06 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:03 AM on 06 Jun 2008 For World Environment Day on Thursday, a French climber scaled the New York Times building in Manhattan to protest climate change. Wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "The Solution Is Simple.Org" -- the web address of a one-page site calling for meaningful climate action -- Alain Robert climbed to the top of the 52-story building unroped and without a parachute. Onc ...
Topics: climate, heroes, New York, news (all these topics)

An inhospitable climate Climate Security Act dies, failing to muster enough votes to move forward	Kate Sheppard	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Senate held a cloture vote this morning to bring to a close debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, a vote that would have allowed the amendment process to begin. After four days of conversation and delays, the bill died, failing to reach the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture by a vote of 48-36. Unable to move forward, Democratic leadership yanked the bill from the floor. In a press conference following the vote, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

For whatever it's worth A list of strengthening amendments to the climate bill that will probably never be introduced	Kate Sheppard	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In all likelihood, these will never be formally introduced on the Senate floor, but here's a list of the strengthening amendments to the Climate Security Act that various senators have floated:Renewable Electricity Standard, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): This amendment would require that states generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Scientific Review, John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine): ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Flock Together New climate campaign aimed at U.S. consumers		05 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:30 PM on 05 Jun 2008 A European campaign to raise consumer awareness of climate change has made its U.S. debut. The Together campaign -- not to be confused with the similarly named-and-agendaed "we" campaign -- was initiated by the nonprofit Climate Group and kicked off in the U.S. by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Var ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate, consumerism, environmental movement, green living, messaging, news (all these topics)

Feeding climate change Still more reasons to eat local and lay off the beef	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Elizabeth Thomsen via Flickr. Increasingly, consumers are trying to reduce the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. But it's not so easy to know what to do, in part because of the bewildering array of food choices the market offers, but also because it's hard to know what food choices carry the biggest impact. This nifty study tries to clear away some of the murk by tackling a fairly straightforward question: If you care about the climat ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, food, local food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

A final entry on the cap-and-trade debate	Ryan Avent	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The ongoing economic discussion concerning the differences between cap-and-trade and carbon taxes has attracted a number of eminent participants. Not only Mark Thoma, but Brad DeLong now (with an assist from Megan McArdle), offers some excellent commentary on the issues involved.
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate (all these topics)

Vangelism Q&A with Van Jones about the Climate Security Act and green jobs	Kate Sheppard	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Van Jones. What does the green jobs and justice community think about the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act? To get one perspective, Grist caught up with Van Jones, the founder of Green For All, a group that promotes green-jobs policies and environmental justice. Jones, a civil-rights lawyer and the founder and former executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, has become a leading voice for building a green economy. Green for All pu ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, heroes, hotties, interview, legislation, Muckraker, Van Jones (all these topics)

Notable quotable America's 21st century can't-do spirit	David Roberts	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'It's frankly not doable for us.' -- chief U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson, on the G8's proposal to reduce industrial countries' emissions 25-40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020
Topics: international treaties, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate, quotables (all these topics)

Calling all economists Are the CGE models useful for predicting the effects of climate policy?	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: StuSeeger via Flickr. My pal Peter Dorman is looking for answers: Does the class of economic forecasting tools known as 'computable general equilibrium models' (aka CGE models) have any documented track record of success? This may seem like an arcane point, but it's quite relevant to climate policy. Government agencies throughout North America are using CGE models to forecast the economic impacts of various cap-and-trade proposals. But many academic ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, economy (all these topics)

Senate all before GOP leaders resort to high jinks to stall climate bill	Kate Sheppard	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Republican leaders essentially shut down the Senate Wednesday during what was supposed to be a time of debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, forcing clerks to read the entire 492-page bill aloud. Republicans said the maneuver -- which sucked up nine hours -- was a protest against the Democratic majority's slow pace in considering President Bush's judicial nominations. By the time the reading wrapped up near 10 p.m. last night, Majority Lead ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

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)

McCain is not the candidate of change Arizona senator says no to Boxer-L-W without giga-subsidies for nukes	Joseph Romm	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
McCain said last night that he is the candidate of change. How is billions of dollars in subsidies to build hundreds of nuclear power plants 'change'? Here is everything you need to know about McCain's understanding of both energy and climate issues: He doesn't care enough about the climate to support even a so-so bill like Boxer-Lieberman-Warner unless there are giga-subsidies for nukes beyond the $100 billion or so the industry has received to date. Q: Can y ...
Topics: legislation, presidential race 08, John McCain, politics, climate, nuclear power, dumbassery (all these topics)

Stalled Will the Senate ever get to constructive (or destructive) debate on climate bill?	Kate Sheppard	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has said he won't allow floor debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act to extend beyond next week, according to an article in E&E Daily ($ub. req'd) today. 'If we don't finish it next week, then it means something has gone wrong,' he's quoted as saying. But at an earlier press conference, he told reporters, 'I want to be patient and try to get as much done as soon as we can. If we arrive at a point where w ...
Topics: US Senate, legislation, politics, climate, news, Muckraker (all these topics)

Take a Number On carbon calculators	Umbra Fisk	04 Jun 2008	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, I recently heard an interesting interview on NPR, and the speaker was talking about how, to stop global warming, all humans would have to limit their carbon emissions to just one ton of carbon per person, per year. I've never weighed my carbon emissions, but I'm going to guess that I throw a lot more weight around than one ton. What would I have to do to slim my ton to one? I'm approaching my carbon tonnage like a diet ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, climate change mitigation, ecological footprint, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Green jobs are America's jobs Report: Strong climate policy would protect 14 million American jobs	Brad Johnson	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Wonk Room. A new report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, finds that strong climate policy is a driver for a healthy economy. A policy that prioritizes energy efficiency and renewable energy -- such as cap-and-trade legislation that limits carbon emissions -- will drive investment into those sectors. From day one, the millions of Americans working in such jobs will enjoy greater job sec ...
Topics: climate, legislation, green jobs, economy, business (all these topics)

Atoning for a carbon footprint? Ian McEwan writing a novel about climate change -- with funniness!	Lisa Hymas	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ian McEwan. Photo: Eamon McCabe Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan, now best known for Atonement, is at work on a new novel about climate change that will include 'extended comic stretches,' The Guardian reports. The unnamed work isn't due out for another two years, but McEwan read an excerpt to an audience in Wales on Sunday. The protagonist of the forthcoming novel is Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard, who aspires to save the planet, ...
Topics: books, green living, climate, gossip (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: interview, climate, energy, nuclear power, Amory Lovins (all these topics)

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