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Planktos president responds to environmentalist critics In an op-ed, Russ George claims his company has been unfairly maligned	David Roberts	28 Jun 2007	Gristmill
A company called Planktos has taken some lumps on our site, so when their president, Russ George, sent this response along, I agreed to run it. (It ran originally in the Ottawa Citizen.) Your responses are welcome, but please, keep them civil. ----- As someone who has committed most of my waking life to caring for the planet, recent misleading reports on the foundations and future of my current company's work have led me to reflect on some large and important que ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering (all these topics)

A case of the German weasels BASF CEO questions whether climate change is a problem	Kate Sheppard	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Interesting interview with BASF CEO Jürgen Hambrecht in today's Der Speigel, in which the leader of the world's largest chemical company questions the whole 'climate change is a problem' thing. He's also one of Angela Merkel's 'key advisers,' though we're hoping it's on topics other than climate policy. An excerpt: Spiegel: You say that what the government is calling for is completely unrealistic. What is realistic? Hambrecht: Realistic is what is doable without har ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Germany (all these topics)

Science: Eh, who cares? Hansen says scientists need lovin', too	Kate Sheppard	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
NASA climate scientist James Hansen has a new paper out, titled 'How Can We Avert Dangerous Climate Change,' which is actually a slightly-edited version of his testimony before Congress in April. The paper is available online here (PDF), and it's worth checking out, of course. But also interesting is the preamble Hansen included in his email announcing the new paper: President Eisenhower was arguably the last United States President to seek and value advice of scien ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

The auction vs. free allocation debate reaches Capitol Hill I'm sure whoever has the best argument will win, right?	David Roberts	25 Jun 2007	Gristmill
There's an interesting piece today in CongressNow on the debate over auctioning vs. giving away credits in a cap-and-trade system. (CN requires a subscription, which you can get for the low, low price of $1500 or so. I'm on the 10-day evaluation thing, so enjoy these pieces while they come, 'cause there's no way Grist is coughing up that kind of dough.) The basic lay of the land is this: enviros, and other people concerned about making the system actually work to re ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

New Jersey gets ambitious Plans to make huge cuts in greenhouse gases	David Roberts	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Well it would be nice to know how they plan to do all this, but these certainly are ballsy goals out of New Jersey: Reduce greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020 (a 13 percent drop) and 80 percent below current levels by 2050. Regulators have one year to measure current and 1990 emissions and recommend a plan for meeting the 2020 goal. By 2010, they must have a plan for reaching the 2050 target. To protect electric suppliers, the state will adopt meas ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, New Jersey (all these topics)

Who is Daniel Sperling and why is he saying bad things about carbon taxes? Picking apart an argument against carbon taxes	Charles Komanoff	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Yesterday's L.A. Times ran an odd op-ed calling carbon taxes an ineffectual antidote to global warming. Unlike other critiques that brand carbon taxes politically unpalatable, this one argued that they're simply not up to the job of cutting carbon emissions: Carbon taxes -- taxes on energy sources that emit carbon dioxide (CO2) -- aren't a bad idea. But they only work in some situations. Specifically, they do not work in the transportation sector, the source of ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Has 'carbon tax' entered the world of the possible? Dingell floats it; Boucher knocks it down	David Roberts	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Hmm? What's all this now? John Dingell is floating the possibility of a carbon tax? From CongressNow (sub. rqd.): Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who will play a key role in crafting the House version of comprehensive climate change legislation, on Wednesday night downplayed speculation that the House bill could include some form of a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. Boucher, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce energy and air quality subcommittee, last night said ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, John Dingell, legislation, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

One more truth about China and climate change It's about more than money	Christina Larson	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
It's official. China is now the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases. Having spent much of this spring reporting in China, I'd like to second just about everything David said yesterday on the topic. But I have one ginormous point to add. It's not just money that's needed. Yes, it'd be a good thing if Hill folks stopped bashing technology-exchange programs as lending an 'unfair competitive advantage.' And yes, let's stop painting China as the international ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, United States (all these topics)

Doing carbon right What good carbon policy should -- but often doesn't -- reward	Sean Casten	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Too much of the debate on carbon-control policy starts from flawed assumptions. Take those assumptions away, and one quickly realizes that we have a lot of pretty good options. Let's parse the carbon policy argument, and think for a moment about how to best engender the most economically beneficial carbon reduction policy. First, let's strike any false assumptions from our logic: Let's not assume that it costs money to reduce carbon emissions until proven othe ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Many policies, one goal It's all about raising the price of carbon	David Roberts	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Robert Reich -- Secretary of Labor under Clinton, economic policy professor/pundit -- has a somewhat confused column up advocating for a "carbon auction." In particular, it's not clear whether he's talking about politics or policy, which is a confusion that generally plagues this discussion. He rejects a carbon tax because it will be politically unpopular. The holy-and-sanctified Middle Class won't put up with it. He rejects a cap-and-trade system because ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Sweden, lead'n An entire nation of sexy beasts	JMG	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
There is a large amount of literature discussing the 'Resource Curse' (sometimes called the Oil Curse, but established before that for silver, gold, etc.), in which countries blessed with an abundance of a desirable resource often turn into kleptocracies ruled by thugs. Oddly, countries like Japan and Taiwan, with few (if any) local resources, often soar because their cultures build in a premium on efficiency ... It appears that Sweden -- while not as resource poor as many ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Sweden (all these topics)

Seven truths about China and climate change That you won't hear in the mainstream media	David Roberts	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
China has officially passed the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. This is likely to prompt a lot of misinformation and obfuscation from the usual quarters. So here are some simple truths about China and global warming that everyone should remember as the debate proceeds. 1. The U.S. still vastly outpaces China in terms of per-capita GHG emissions, and will for the foreseeable future. That's because the U.S. is a much more industrializ ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

MoJo's math poetry The precise mathematical formula for despair	JMG	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The latest Mother Jones (July/August 2007, according to the the weird dating schemes of dinosaur media) has a great last-page feature titled 'The New Math of Global Warming' -- short, poetic mathematical expressions on our plight. I'd link to it but the MoJo site seems to be missing some of its mojo right now ... the link to the slideshow gives you a 'not found' error. But it's probably for sale at a local indie newsstand near you. As Joe Bob would say, 'Check it out.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Rolling Stone on the climate crisis A package of good stories	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Rolling Stone has a package of stories on Al Gore's climate crusade in the current issue. First up is a long interview with the man himself , including this nice tidbit: What figure in the administration, other than the president himself, do you hold most responsible for standing in the way of meaningful change on global warming? Oh, Cheney, of course. Both Bush and Cheney come out of the carbon-extraction industry. But Cheney has been the more forcefu ...
Topics: Al Gore, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Nuclear power no climate cure-all So says a new report	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Everything you could possibly want to know about nuclear power -- and its (limited) potential as a potential climate solution -- can be found in the new Keystone Center Report with the less-than-captivating title 'Nuclear Power Joint Fact-Finding.' Reuters is confused in its article on the report, 'Nuclear Power Can't Curb Global Warming -- Report,' and actually overstates the case for nuclear: Nuclear power would only curb climate change by expanding worl ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Irony Of Iron Ease U.S. EPA challenges California company's plankton-seeding plan		19 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Irony Of Iron Ease U.S. EPA challenges California company's plankton-seeding plan A California company's plan to fight climate change by seeding the ocean with iron dust is drawing fire from the U.S. EPA, which reportedly woke from a nap with the vague feeling that it ought to be doing something regulatory. The company, Planktos, will use the iron to spur the growth of phytoplankton, which ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics)

Don't discount the Stern Review Discount rates: Boring but important	Joseph Romm	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
This post will address two questions. What exactly is the discount rate? Did Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist with the World Bank, use the wrong discount rate in his landmark 2006 report, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change? These may seem like abstruse economic questions, but for analyzing the cost-benefit analysis of climate action -- whether we must act urgently or at leisure -- the discount rate is probably the single most importan ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Give ethanol a chance: The case for corn-based fuel With the right rules in place, it could work	David Morris	17 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Working Assets is my long-distance phone company. I love it dearly for its combination of business efficiency, social responsibility and progressive politics. Each month, my phone bill carries alerts that urge me to take action on a specific issue or two. Recent Citizen Actions suggest the gravity of the issues chosen: "Save Our Constitution," "Impeach Dick Cheney," "Close Guantanamo." This month Workin ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

Western civilization? What a nice idea	James Dailey	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
If Gandhi were around today, I think he would be less reasonable and tractable about the climate crisis; instead, he would challenge the moral integrity of so-called western civilization. The galvanizing march to the salt flats (the famous 'Salt March') would be a tour of threatened island nations: Inuit seeking redress for loss of habitat, mountain people facing bewildering change, deluges in Bangladesh, landslides in the Philippines, and masses of people in the Indus- ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental justice, severe weather (all these topics)

When push comes to guv Ahhhnold and friends tell the folks on the Hill to get with it	Kate Sheppard	13 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Ahhhnold is calling out the U.S. government for being a bunch of girly men and women on climate change. On Monday, he teamed up with Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell, a fellow Republican, to chastise the folks on the Hill for 'inaction and denial' on climate change in an open letter published in the Washington Post. Not only have they failed to take major federal action, they've also tried to thwart actions by progressive states like California and Connecticut, the ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, politics, state politics (all these topics)

What's the worst that could happen? Some guy and a camera	JMG	13 Jun 2007	Gristmill
A homecooked argument for aggressive response to global heating.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement (all these topics)

Can You Hear the Drums, Hu Jintao? Sweden hosts Chinese president, global environment ministers		12 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Can You Hear the Drums, Hu Jintao? Sweden hosts Chinese president, global environment ministers What we learned today: while researching eco-news from Sweden, you might stumble upon some juicy tidbits. Like the fact that tennis player Björn Borg was severely bitten by a dog this weekend, or that the organizers of a future museum dedicated to ABBA have found a location in Stockholm! ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news, Sweden (all these topics)

When I'm climate change czar ... What rules would you impose to address global heating if you were	JMG	12 Jun 2007	Gristmill
America, nominally a democracy, acquired a strange fetish for 'czars' during the Nixon administration (how telling). I remember William Simon being appointed 'energy czar' back in the 70s. Like the Romanoffs, he had a fearsome title and did nothing good for most of the people in his country. Still, it can be a useful exercise to think about what you would do if you suddenly had responsibility for something like dealing with global heating, and you could make the policy changes ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

'The 5% Solution' vs. Sierra Club's '2% Solution' Your math teacher knew you'd need this stuff someday!	JMG	11 Jun 2007	Gristmill
During one of our many discussions here at Gristmill around cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, I did some figuring and realized that, if we started in 2008, we would have three 'halving' periods between then and 2050 if we could just cut emissions by 5 percent per year -- not an unreachable goal for people who absolutely waste a buttload of energy. I've been talking up what I've taken to calling 'The 5% Solution' here in Springfield (where the Simpsons live), making contact wi ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Low-hanging fruit Dirt cheap carbon	biodiversivist	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Great interview over on Mongabay with Daniel Nepstad, head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program. When it comes to immediate carbon emissions reductions, the biggest bang for the buck is to stop deforestation of the tropics. This revelation would have much less relevance if there were not also a mechanism envisioned to achieve it called the RED initiative (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation). As with anything, the concept has its critics. In my unqu ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

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