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Catch a Waiver and You're Sittin' on Top of the World California to sue EPA to force decision on vehicle-emissions waiver		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:26 AM on 22 Oct 2007 California is expected to follow through on its threat to sue the U.S. EPA this week for not yet deciding whether to give the state the waiver it needs to implement its 2002 law limiting greenhouse-gas emissions from cars. The state's law requires a nearly 30 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2016, which experts say can only r ...
Topics: California, climate change mitigation, litigation, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Low-budget Bjornography George Will's latest column tests the limits of self parody	David Roberts	20 Oct 2007	Gristmill
George Will pulls off a real triple axel of hackery in his latest column, taking the Stepford flimflam of Bjorn Lomborg and ladling on a glutinous serving of his own pinkie-raised pomposity. Rarely has such a poor grasp of the facts been presented with such preening self-regard ... at least since the last George Will column. It even won him a MediaPutz of the Day award. I'll skip the specific points, which are just poorly edited Bjornography, and point you to the hila ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Geo-engineering remains a bad idea Climate change mitigation strategy could actually damage the planet	Joseph Romm	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Earl Killian sends me this WSJ op-ed: 'Thinking Big on Global Warming' (subs. req'd.). He sees some good news in it -- the WSJ 'published a non-denier [opinion] piece.' Yes, but geo-engineering is one of the delayers' sexiest strategies -- holding out the promise of a pure techno-fix that doesn't require all those annoying regulations needed to completely change our energy system. The conservative (duh!) authors of the WSJ piece embrace trying to 'develop capabiliti ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, geoengineering, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

ACSA Question Bipartisan cap-and-trade bill introduced to mixed reviews		19 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:07 AM on 19 Oct 2007 On Wednesday, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.) introduced bipartisan climate legislation -- America's Climate Security Act -- at long last bridging the acrimonious divide between Republicans and, um, independents. Democrats have all but made it tripartisan -- Senate Environment Committee head Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was gushing in her praise. Observers expect political ...
Topics: climate change mitigation, legislation, news, United States (all these topics)

Directed Buy On carbon offsets	Umbra Fisk	15 Oct 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I've been reading the whole back-and-forth about carbon offsets, and it seems strange to me that most (all?) of the ones I've seen fund projects that, while worthwhile, may or may not result in the promised emissions reduction. It seems that a simple way around this problem would be to buy actual emissions permits from an established carbon market like Europe. Are there any companies or organizations that would allow me to do t ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

What exactly is the difference between Lomborg and Shellenberger & Nordhaus? Authors of recent climate books tell us not to worry so much about global warming	Joseph Romm	08 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Proving conclusively that we have a long, long way to go before the mainstream media stops promoting climate misinformation disinformation, the Washington Post gave global-warming delayer Bjorn Lomborg a front-page opinion piece in its Outlook section. Lomborg repeats his nonsense about polar bears, sea-level rise, and why global warming (at least on Planet Lomborg) is no big deal, which I have previously debunked here, here, and here, respectively. He also claims Gre ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus: Part IV Why bother criticizing S&N?	Joseph Romm	06 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The question has been raised: Why spend time 'debunking' S&N when they seem to be well-meaning folks struggling for a genuine solution to global warming, unlike, say, Bjorn Lomborg? Aside from the fact that they are adding great confusion and misinformation to a critical debate, the answer is simple -- they aren't well-meaning. S&N spend far more time attacking the environmental community (and Al Gore and even Rachel Carson) than they do proposing a viable s ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

The meaning of global warming, part one Stabilizing the climate requires technology, public investment, and global economic development	David Roberts	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, the latest in the ongoing conversation about their new book Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. ----- Thank you to everyone here who has participated in this discussion. We are grateful to Grist to making the space for this debate, and to everyone who has chimed in. Through agreement and disagreement alike, it is inspiring to find this man ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, tech (all these topics)

Survey on what we're willing to do for the climate crisis	JMG	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Not a whole lot, apparently.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Legislate Bloomers Congress to move ahead on climate legislation, Dems to send delegation to U.N. climate talks		04 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 11:05 AM on 04 Oct 2007 Congressional leaders in the U.S. House and Senate have said they plan to push ahead in their attempts to pass cap-and-trade-type climate legislation, despite the Bush administration's renewed call to reduce emissions through voluntary technology partnerships instead. On Wednesday, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, news, United States (all these topics)

The elephant in the environmental room How do you solve a problem like <del	David Roberts	04 Oct 2007	Gristmill
It occurs to me that my response to Shellenberger & Nordhaus failed to address what they call the "elephant in the environmental room": China. They say that environmentalists ignore the subject and corporatists obsess over it for the same reason -- it illustrates the futility of domestic carbon regulations (in isolation). China, they say, is not going to impose regulatory restrictions that will slow its economic growth. It will not shift from coal to cl ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

The growth of renewable energy markets In which I come to the defense of Shellenberger and Nordhaus -- sort of, anyway	Adam Browning	04 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I was planning on sitting out the Nordhaus/Shellenberger debate. But then I thought: Adam, you are not the top-rated Gristmill blogger (see list at left) for nothing. People want to hear from you. So, here's my take:The first place Nordhaus and Shellenberger go wrong is their predilection for publicity photos that resemble '80s album covers.After that, they get it mostly right. Carbon legislation is good and helpful, sure, but it's about 30 percent thought-through, eno ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus: Part II Breaking the technology breakthrough myth	Joseph Romm	04 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Do we need 'disruptive clean-energy technologies that achieve non-incremental breakthroughs' to solve the global warming problem, as S&N (and Lomborg, and Bush, and his advisors) argue? Let's hope not -- for the sake of the next 50 generations. Why? Two reasons: Such breakthroughs hardly ever happen. Even when they do happen, they rarely have a transformative impact on energy markets, even over a span of decades. Consider that solar photovoltaic cells ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, tech (all these topics)

Donning his cap Dingell endorses a cap-and-trade climate plan	Brian Beutler	03 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Just days after releasing his carbon-and-gas tax proposal for public comment, House Energy and Commerce Chair John Dingell (D-Auto) -- along with Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Coal) of Virginia -- has released a report [PDF] endorsing an economy-wide cap-and-trade program. In an odd but welcome turn, the 22-page white paper reads:The United States should reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 and 80 percent by 2050 to contribute to efforts to address climate chan ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus: Part I The death of 'The Death of Environmentalism'	Joseph Romm	03 Oct 2007	Gristmill
What do Michael Crichton, Bjorn Lomborg, Frank Luntz, George W. Bush (and his climate/energy advisors) have in common with Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus? They all believe that (1) new 'breakthrough' technologies are needed to solve the global warming problem and (2) investing in such technology is far more important than regulating carbon. In fairness to President Bush -- he doesn't really believe those two things (as evidenced by the fact that he has actu ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

We Wish We Could Say the Same of the Heiress The City of Love unveils an emissions reduction plan		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:27 PM on 02 Oct 2007 Speaking of the scheming of the French, Paris has pledged to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 30 percent by 2020. Gosh, who isn't introducing such plans these days? Oh. Right. source:� Agence France-Presse From the Archives Quebec and Call. Quebec introduces carbon tax. Moving Stricture. Corps may buy out coastal Miss. towns, encourage resid ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, France, greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

Roll On, Columbia British Columbia premier announces climate plan		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:45 PM on 01 Oct 2007 British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell has announced a vague plan for reducing the province's greenhouse-gas emissions by a third by 2020. The plan includes requiring all government agencies to be carbon neutral by 2010, factoring in employee travel; institution of a local carbon-offset provider; installation of residential and commercial smart meters to encourage energy conservation; and emissi ...
Topics: British Columbia, climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Putting your inner political superego on hold A utopian realist agenda	Jon Rynn	01 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Recently Nordhaus and Shellenberger (N&S) posted on Gristmill, wrote in The New Republic, and published a book, all with the aim of offering a better alternative to the mainstream environmental agenda. In my estimation, they made three important points: Americans would respond to a positive vision of the future; global warming can only be solved if, in addition to regulatory policies, we embark on a program of public investment; and the public is quite open to the idea ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

The Dingell Life Michigan Rep. John Dingell drafts a carbon-tax bill		27 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 27 Sep 2007 Michigan Rep. John Dingell (D) has drafted a carbon-tax bill and posted a summary to his website to solicit public feedback. In its current form, Dingell's legislation would phase in over five years a $50-per-ton tax on carbon and a tax of 50 cents per gallon on gasoline and jet fuel (after five years the tax would be indexed to inflation). The bill would also phase out tax deductions for homes ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, John Dingell, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Environmentalism's existential moment Shellenberger & Nordhaus respond to critics	David Roberts	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, authors of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility and 'The Death of Environmentalism.' Nordhaus and Shellenberger are managing directors at American Environics and the founders of the Breakthrough Institute. ----- This month the world celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the international treaty that phased out ozone-destroying chemicals. For environ ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton chats with the press Bill Clinton wanted a carbon market back in the day, and he still does	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton just gave a short speech and took a few questions from reporters. Some highlights: When they were in office, Bill Clinton and Al Gore wanted to create a global carbon market. At the time, Europe thought the idea undesirable and unfeasible and didn't offer any support. The effort failed. Now, years down the line, the world is a different place and the idea has much more purchase. Clinton, when asked for his thoughts on this, managed to turn all of his ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

American spirits New poll shows Americans believe in global warming, want to do something about it	David Roberts	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Another day, another poll. This one's a Yale University / Gallup / ClearVision poll run by Anthony Leiserowitz, who I've written about before. Unlike the one I wrote about earlier this week, this poll focused on the U.S. No huge shocks. Most Americans believe humans are causing global warming; strangely, they see themselves as ahead of the scientific consensus -- lots (40%) are under the mistaken impression that scientists still disagree about the existence of climat ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, United States (all these topics)

Iron fertilization A sound plan, or a load of manure?	JMG	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Take a look at this conference on dumping iron into the oceans to boost carbon pickup.
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, oceans (all these topics)

You Really Can't Have Too Many Meetings U.S. will host climate meeting of world's largest emitters		26 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:06 PM on 26 Sep 2007 Representatives from the world's 17 largest greenhouse-gas emitters will gather tomorrow in the good ol' U.S. of A. for a climate-change discussion. (And yes, the U.N. just had one of those -- President Bush played hooky.) The group, which includes China, India, and Brazil, will be convened by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Bush will address them on Frida ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Lehman on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme European cap-and-trade program gets a positive review	Joseph Romm	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
At the end of their recent climate report, Lehman Brothers has one of the best brief discussions of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that I have seen. Since the EU ETS is often viewed in this country as a failure, I thought I would reprint their somewhat different perspective in its entirety: The EU ETS, which came into effect in January 2005, was constructed on the basic premise that setting emission caps and allowing them to be freely traded w ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

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