Grist | Topics | 604 Results

RESULTS		Results 426 – 450 of 604
Page:1 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25
Headline	Author	Published	Section
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 Bj�rn 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 change mitigation, climate (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)

A Jury Of Your Pyrrhus G8 climate deal is failure or triumph, depending whom you ask		08 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
A Jury Of Your Pyrrhus G8 climate deal is failure or triumph, depending whom you ask Welcome to another installment of "Days of Our G8 Lives." Yesterday, the G8 agreed to a climate deal it's been fine-tuning for weeks. It notably did not commit to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions 50 percent by 2050, but it did say countries would "con ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news (all these topics)

More Colbert on Griffin	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
You can see part one here. Here's part two:
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, funnies, jackassery (all these topics)

Ceci n'est pas une carbon tax Color me unimpressed	Eric de Place	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
You can color me unimpressed by the big news today in the Globe and Mail: Quebec just became the first Canadian province to pass a carbon tax. For one thing, the tax is tiny, just 0.8 cents per liter of gasoline, and at comparably low levels on natural gas and diesel. (For non-metricized Americans, that's 3 cents per gallon.) So that makes Quebec's new approach not quite as aggressive as -- to pick just one example at random -- Idaho's 5 cent per gallon increase circa ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Howard emulates his hero Australia tries to distract from Kyoto	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Looks like somebody's been taking lessons from Bush. Get this:'The Kyoto model -- top-down, prescriptive, legalistic and Euro-centric -- simply won't fly in a rising Asia-Pacific region,' Howard told an Asia Society Australasia dinner.Gag.
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

The latest carbon abatement policy arguments Carbon tax v. cap and trade -- the hottest arguments since McCartney v. Lennon	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The argument over the best climate change mitigation policy is gathering steam. Busting out all over. Topping the charts. All the kids are dancing to it. Before getting to the latest, though, it's worth making a simple point: either cap-and-trade or a carbon tax could reduce GHG emissions if properly designed and implemented; either could be ineffectual if poorly designed and implemented. So: Either one is better than nothing. Nobody's allowed to check out on ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

More on the G8 climate statement The U.S. outmaneuvered European leaders, yet again	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
All right, the more I read about this G8 climate agreement the more it becomes clear that the Bush administration completely outplayed the other developed countries on this. That, at least, they're good at. Blair, Merkel, and Sarkozy all went into the summit staking their credibility on forcing an agreement: mandatory emissions cuts based on a shared target. The U.S. said: fck you. They begged. They pleaded. The U.S. repeated: fck you. Meanwhile, the U.S. made a ca ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

'Breakthrough' at G8: U.S. agrees to consider a process of setting a goal to agree on a commitment to agreeing on a process Progress ... we think	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I confess I haven't had the intestinal fortitude to closely follow the negotiations at the G8, but it looks like they've come up with something being billed as a "breakthrough." This phrasing in the Washington Post story is curious: The goal is to agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, Merkel said, hailing the decision as a 'huge success.' "The goal is to agree"? Does that mean they've agreed to agree, or that they agreed to try ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Page:1 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25		Results 426 – 450 of 604

Stories About: climate change mitigation