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House creates global warming committee Vote passes easily	David Roberts	08 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Today the House of Representatives voted to create the much-discussed committee on global warming: The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday passed a rule to create a committee that will focus on climate change. On a vote of 228-195, the House approved creation of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has been pushing for the committee as a way to raise public and lawmaker awareness of climate ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, Ed Markey, John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Bill McKibben: Warning on Warming A new essay from the man	David Roberts	19 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Tom Engelhardt of the indispensable Tom's Dispatch received permission from the editors of the New York Review of Books to reprint an essay by Bill McKibben that appears in the current issue. He passed that permission along to me. Thanks to Tom, the editors at NYRB, and of course Bill for his tireless advocacy. ----- Warning on Warming By Bill McKibben [This piece, which appears in the March 15, 2007 issue of The New York Review of Books is posted here with ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, consumerism, population (all these topics)

Dingell meets Gore Gore to testify to Congress	David Roberts	03 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Here's a handy political rule of thumb: don't front on John Dingell. In recent weeks, House Speaker Pelosi moved to create a special committee on global warming chaired by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). It won't have subpoena powers, but it will call hearings. It was a shot across Dingell's bow, letting him know he better take global warming seriously. Well, Dingell has just booked Al Gore as the sole testimony before a March 21 joint hearing of his Energy and Commerce ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, Ed Markey, John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Sundance: A Q&A with Ross Gelbspan The heat is still on	Kate Sheppard	30 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Perhaps the most rewarding moment I witnessed at Sundance last week, after watching several post-screening Q&A's with Everything's Cool directors and stars, came on my last night in Utah. They'd just finished the film's only screening in Salt Lake City, and the packed house had nearly all stayed for the rap session, armed with questions about the future and what they can do. The theater managers had to ask them to wrap up the Q&A more than once, and even when t ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, interview, James Hansen, messaging, movies (all these topics)

Bright lining Lines that are bright, how we love them	David Roberts	17 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Bill McKibben's Step It Up 2007 campaign (read his dispatches) is trying to rally a bunch of simultaneous protests pushing a single goal: reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 80% by 2050. This approach -- picking a goal rather than supporting specific legislation -- is known as bright lining, and it's something you're going to hear a lot more about on this site fairly soon (stay tuned!). I'm a big fan. What if we could get every green group to agree on a bright line ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, Bill McKibben, fuel efficiency, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Top ten breakthroughs that could help cool the greenhouse Read and be dazzled by the techno-futurism	Gar Lipow	12 Dec 2006	Gristmill
David asked contributors for end-of-year lists. Since I normally focus on conservative assumptions, I thought I'd use it as an excuse to look at future breakthroughs and cost improvements. I was going to weasel by calling these "possibilities," but instead I decided to use the time-tested technique of public psychics: I'll call them predictions, crow over any that come true, and pretend the rest never happened. 1. Power storage that will make electric cars ...
Topics: cars, climate change adaptation, electric vehicles, energy, energy efficiency, hybrids, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Is today's warming man-made? Here's why the scientific community thinks so	Andrew Dessler	15 Nov 2006	Gristmill
This is a 'greatest hit' from my previous blog. It's a topic that comes up all the time, so I think it's worth a reprise. ----- As George Bush said at a recent press conference: 'the globe is warming. The fundamental debate: Is it manmade or natural?' Why does the scientific community think humans are significantly contributing to today's warming? To understand why, first recognize that whenever the climate shifts, there's a reason for it. It does not wande ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

This House is a home Green candidates claim a number of seats	Kate Sheppard	08 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Dems solidly took the House last night, gaining 28 seats. The results from key races we were watching, with the good news first:The biggest win of the night was in California's 11th district where voters ousted Richard Pombo (R) in favor of Jerry McNerney. The country's natural resources rejoice. In New Mexico's 1st district, state Attorney General Patricia Madrid (D) and incumbent Heather Wilson (R) remain neck-and-neck in what has been a heated race. League of Con ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, elections, politics (all these topics)

A very very very fine House? Enviros turn eco ear to House races	Kate Sheppard	07 Nov 2006	Gristmill
There are few key House races we here at Gristmill will be keeping an eye on tonight, races where the environment has been a big issue in the run up to today's elections. We're looking for feedback from you on others where environmental issues will be a factor in tonight's results.The first and most obvious is California's 11th district where voters are choosing between incumbent eco-foe Richard Pombo (R) and Jerry McNerney (D). Enviro groups like the Sierra Club, the ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, elections, politics (all these topics)

Bill McKibben: How close to catastrophe? A new essay	David Roberts	22 Oct 2006	Gristmill
What follows is a new essay by Bill McKibben, addressing -- in the context of reviewing five new books -- just how close we are to ecological catastrophe, and what reasons there are for hope. The essay will appear in the Nov. 16 edition of the New York Review of Books. The NYRB editors gave Tom Engelhardt's excellent TomDispatch permission to publish it in advance; he in turn gave me permission to run it here. Thanks to Tom and to the NYRB editors. Don't miss this ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, politics (all these topics)

Is God Green? An exclusive preview of Bill Moyers' PBS special (Windows, low bandwidth)	David Roberts	05 Oct 2006	Main Dish
The Windows Media Player is required. Get it now. Watch the high-bandwidth version here. Return to the Moyers interview.
Topics: climate change adaptation, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Is God Green? An exclusive preview of Bill Moyers' PBS special (Windows, high bandwidth)	David Roberts	05 Oct 2006	Main Dish
The Windows Media Player is required. Get it now. Watch the low-bandwidth version here. Return to the Moyers interview.
Topics: climate change adaptation, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Is God Green? An exclusive preview of Bill Moyers' PBS special �(RealPlayer, low bandwidth)	David Roberts	05 Oct 2006	Main Dish
The RealPlayer is required. Get it now. (There is a completely free version. Make sure to click on the hard-to-find "FREE RealPlayer" link.) Watch the high-bandwidth version here. Return to the Moyers interview.
Topics: climate change adaptation, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Is God Green? An exclusive preview of Bill Moyers' PBS special �(RealPlayer, high bandwidth)	David Roberts	05 Oct 2006	Main Dish
The RealPlayer is required. Get it now. (There is a completely free version. Make sure to click on the hard-to-find "FREE RealPlayer" link.) Watch the low-bandwidth version here. Return to the Moyers interview.
Topics: climate change adaptation, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Faith, Hope, and Clarity Bill Moyers discusses the spread of environmental concern among evangelicals	David Roberts	05 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Just after the 2004 election, in his 70th year, legendary journalist Bill Moyers retired from full-time television, giving up the reins of his beloved PBS show Now. But Moyers has not left behind his vocation or his network. This month, PBS will air a new three-part special, Moyers on America. The second part -- Is God Green?, airing Oct. 11 -- traces the growing env ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Heat and Serve Can industrial agriculture withstand climate change?	Tom Philpott	04 Oct 2006	Victual Reality
If the fossil fuels don't getcha, the genetics will. Photo: iStockphoto In the United States, the clearest signs of climate change so far have been stern words from Al Gore and a few hotter-than-normal summers. In Greenland, by contrast, global warming has sparked a revolution -- at least, when it comes to agriculture. A recent article in the German magazine Der Spiegel explores the dramatic new op ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, fossil fuels, industrial ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

More on Gore's speech The most noteworthy features	David Roberts	18 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Just to follow up a bit on Amanda's post, it seems to me that there are three particularly newsworthy features of Gore's speech: A "carbon freeze"? I've never even heard of that. But if we took it seriously -- if we really halted, immediately, the growth of our collective GHG emissions -- it would functionally amount to huge cuts. Those new coal-fired power plants in Texas would certainly be off the table. In fact, the coal industry would be forced to sh ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate change adaptation, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Talking Points	David Roberts	13 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Climate and energy have entered mainstream dialog. They're being discussed on op-ed pages and cable news, by ordinary people around the water cooler (do they still have those?), outside of environmental and policy-wonk circles. Hell, Rory's grandparents bought her a Prius on Gilmore Girls. Or so I hear. This is all to the good: these are extraordinarily important issues, and every concerned citizen should be at least minimally educated about them. Problem is, t ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, energy, green living (all these topics)

Adaptation redux	David Roberts	05 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Roger Pielke Jr. has an overheated post up today wondering why I don't care about the suffering of "millions, perhaps billions" of people around the world adversely affected by climate. Oy. I hesitate to reply, but here goes. People, mainly poor people -- in the U.S., but far more so in developing countries -- are increasingly vulnerable to severe weather: floods, droughts, hurricanes, etc. The reasons have mainly to do with growing population, bad land-us ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate equity (all these topics)

Adaptation and political context	David Roberts	03 Jun 2006	Gristmill
The U.S. should be doing more to prepare for changes in the climate that are already inevitable. As many folks have pointed out, even if we completely stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow, the gases already in the atmosphere will yield climate weirdness 30 to 40 years from now. Adaptation -- the term of art for these sorts of adjustments -- is necessary. And it probably doesn't get the attention it should in policy discussions. Nevertheless, I'm leery about discussin ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation (all these topics)

Adaptation	David Roberts	29 May 2006	Gristmill
The other issue that's come up in Pielke-Roberts Mild Disagreement '06 is the relative importance of mitigation vs. adaptation, climate-change wise. A couple of issues need to be distinguished here. First, the substance: According to Roger, the "Kyoto Protocol, as is the FCCC under which it was negotiated, is in fact strongly biased against adaptation." It frames money spent on adaptation as money directly drained from mitigation (which it says would make ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

The King and I An interview with Sir David King, Britain's top scientist and climate crusader	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Feb 2006	Main Dish
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has earned a rep as a global leader in the fight against climate change, and, at least in part, he has Sir David King to thank for it. Sir David King. King, the U.K. government's chief scientific adviser and an outspoken advocate of aggressive action to forestall global warming, has pushed the climate crisis up the PM's priority list ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, fossil fuels, interview, Kyoto Protocol, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Enviros call on RFK Jr. to support Cape Wind project Over 150 activists send letter asking Kennedy to reconsider position	Lisa Hymas	06 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Cape Wind Associates' plan to build a big wind-power farm off the coast of Cape Cod has been dividing enviros for years, but the disagreement got a lot more heated last month when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran a high-profile op-ed railing against the project in The New York Times. An excerpt: These turbines are less than six miles from shore and would be seen from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

More on the Prospect package Highs and lows of sweet, sweet wonkitude	David Roberts	28 Sep 2005	Gristmill
Enough about The Reapers. How's the rest of the American Prospect environment package? Much of it, sadly, is deathly, wonkily boring. In particular, Carl Pope ... dude. What is this pap? It's so bland, so politician-y, it takes genuine concentration even to get through it. You've written better stuff on your blog, for chrissake. This from Ross Gelbspan and this from John M. Meyer are similarly forgettable. But there are many bright moments. Bil ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, consumerism, green living, health (all these topics)

The Altima Sacrifice Nissan CEO not happy about making new hybrid Altima		02 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The Altima Sacrifice Nissan CEO not happy about making new hybrid Altima Automaker Nissan is releasing its first hybrid model, a version of its Altima sedan, next year, but it doesn't have to like it. In a speech at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said hybrids aren't profitable enough ...
Topics: business, cars, climate change adaptation, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius, United States (all these topics)

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