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Strange bedfellows in climate politics A Nation columnist goes contrarian; GM goes the other way	Charles Komanoff	22 May 2007	Gristmill
Did lefty pundit Alexander Cockburn and corporate behemoth General Motors secretly agree to swap climate positions? It looks that way. GM, swallowing hard, recently joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the elite enviro-business coalition pushing cap-and-trade -- a so-called "market-based system" for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. Meanwhile, the famously acidic Cockburn lacerated global warming orthodoxy in his column in the Nation ma ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greening biz operations, US CAP (all these topics)

Republican governors to Bush: Pull over and let us pass The federal gov't is blocking state efforts to fight climate change	David Roberts	22 May 2007	Gristmill
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell (R) take to the pages of the Washington Post to send President Bush a simple message: 'It's high time the federal government becomes our partner or gets out of the way.' At issue is the waiver Calif. and 11 other states need from the EPA to implement their new tailpipe-emissions standards. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court made it clear that California is perfectly within its rights to imple ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, climate change mitigation, politics, state politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Yowza Drilling for oil is good for climate change -- see how!	David Roberts	21 May 2007	Gristmill
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) explains why drilling in the Arctic Refuge will help us fight climate change: Won't drilling for more oil make global warming worse? What some might perceive as the contradiction in further drilling, when we take into account the mean estimate of what we take from ANWR, it will be the equivalent of what we have seen from Prudhoe Bay, which has produced 20 percent of this country's oil [production]. If we could tap into a source that c ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, jackassery, oil, US Senate (all these topics)

'Environmental pragmatist' in The New York Times All about hydrogen	Joseph Romm	21 May 2007	Gristmill
Probably half the media queries I get concern hydrogen -- thanks to my last book, The Hype about Hydrogen. Yesterday's New York Times Magazine had an exceedingly long article, 'The Zero-Energy Solution,' on a solar-hydrogen home. The author refers to me as 'an environmental pragmatist,' no doubt because I don't automatically embrace every environmental solution that comes along, but judge each on its technical and practical merit. I have written a number of arti ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, hydrogen, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

With this misguided notion, I thee wed Green weddings are no better than white ones	Katharine Wroth	21 May 2007	Gristmill
It's not exactly news -- Umbra made the point in her column on green weddings a couple of months ago, and others have no doubt said it -- but a piece in Salon today on the wedding industry points out that green weddings are not so magical as they seem: Then, there's the recent development of green weddings and carbon-neutral weddings. It's very small, but you'll get people talking about how they want to have a carbon-neutral wedding, so they'll be making donations ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, green living (all these topics)

Charcoal agriculture: not ready for prime time We haven't quite figured it out yet	Gar Lipow	20 May 2007	Gristmill
JMG and I were both too optimistic. We both thought charcoal agriculture was ready to play a limited but real role in controlling global warming. Burn some high carbon biomass, turning it into charcoal that will stay stable for thousands of years; add it to soil, which builds tilth and structure; you have just sequestered some carbon and improved agriculture at the same time. We know it can be done. Pre-Columbian Indians covered much of Brazil with terra preta (black ear ...
Topics: climate change mitigation, climate, agriculture (all these topics)

Planet Gore Disinfotainment Watch: Utterly misrepresenting research Keeping an eye on the 'wingers	Joseph Romm	20 May 2007	Gristmill
(Part of a series of posts keeping an eye on Planet Gore, the National Review blog devoted to obfuscating on climate change.) New research finds low cost for tackling climate change. But not when that research is reported by Planet Gore. Sterling Burnett recently authored a classic example of PG's disinfotainment. He writes: Has the media completely lost objectivity and the search for the 'truth' with regard to the issue of global warming. The latest reason that made m ...
Topics: politics, legislation, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

'Cap and trade': another notion that's past its use-by date It runs together several distinct things	Tom Athanasiou	19 May 2007	Gristmill
There's been a nice, coherent-if-incipient debate on cap-and-trade on this blog lately, which I've alas been too busy to reply to. But I wanted to throw in just one small thought: it just might be time to ditch the whole notion. It conflates at least three things together, and as they are all quite different, the 'trading debate' as we know it is both confusing and confused.Cap-and-grandfather: A market-based system in which existing polluters are granted the right ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

After the sinks comes the drain Once we blow through the carbon sinks, it's down the drain for us	JMG	18 May 2007	Gristmill
Another sign that the economists' central myth, their creation story in a sense -- that there is a replacement for anything scarce and the replacement appears whenever the price of the depeleting resource gets high enough -- is the most dangerous fantasy in the world: Alas, there are no replacement carbon sinks, and we seemed to have filled ours up. Now we learn that, after you're through in the sinks, you head down the drain.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

'We don't believe targets and timetables are important' U.S. continues to resist pressure on climate change	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill
If I may indulge for a moment in some blogospheric vitriol and vulgarity ... I really can't wait 'til these aholes are gone: The United States will fight climate change by funding clean energy technologies and will continue to reject emissions targets or cap and trade schemes, its chief climate negotiator Harlan Watson said on Thursday. ... 'We don't believe targets and timetables are important, or a global cap and trade system,' Watson told Reuters, speakin ...**
Topics: carbon trading, jackassery, politics, climate change mitigation, climate, international politics (all these topics)

Why Does Bill Richardson Hate America? Democratic presidential candidate unveils ambitious energy plan		18 May 2007	Daily Grist
Why Does Bill Richardson Hate America? Democratic presidential candidate unveils ambitious energy plan Today we bring you part 16 of "Promising Energy Policies Put Forth By U.S. Presidential Candidates Who Don't Have a Chance in Hell of Getting Elected." This week, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) has been touting his plan for battling global warming. Yesterday, saying the c ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, climate change mitigation, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Smells Like Progress As climate summit continues, fed-up mayors unveil actual plans		16 May 2007	Daily Grist
Smells Like Progress As climate summit continues, fed-up mayors unveil actual plans They cover 1 percent of the Earth's surface, but the world's cities spew 80 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions -- and 180 percent of climate-action plans. "Where national governments can't or won't lead, cities will," said Toronto Mayor David Miller at the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Clarion Caller An interview with renowned climate scientist James Hansen	Kate Sheppard	15 May 2007	Main Dish
James Hansen. Photo: nasa.gov James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, believes scientists have an obligation to speak out when their findings have important implications for the public -- and he certainly put that belief into practice last year when he told The New York Times that the Bush administration was trying to muzzle his calls for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Hansen has been ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, coal, energy, international politics, interview, IPCC, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

Dingell promises climate legislation	David Roberts	15 May 2007	Gristmill
Next year.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, John Dingell, politics (all these topics)

The Big Yapple World's mayors gather for climate-change summit in New York City		15 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Big Yapple World's mayors gather for climate-change summit in New York City Gone are the days when mayors chomped cigars and handed out keys to the city. Today's civic leaders face a somewhat more monumental task: saving the planet. This week, mayors from more than 30 of the world's biggest cities -- from Bangkok to Berlin, Sydney to Shanghai -- are in New York City to compare not ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, local politics, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade and a carbon tax: two great tastes, but do they taste great together? And if not, why not?	David Roberts	15 May 2007	Gristmill
A journalist of some renown called me last week to ask a question: would it be possible to do both a cap-and-trade program and a carbon tax? Al Gore famously urged that approach, but this journo had heard from other (reliable) sources that it's not possible. My instinctive answer was yeah, sure, there's no reason you couldn't do it. (I mean, there are a gazillion political reasons it's impossible, but there's no technical or regulatory reason you couldn't do it.) ...
Topics: Al Gore, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Who's that good-lookin' guy in the commercial? Hey, that's me!	Andrew Dessler	14 May 2007	Gristmill
Republicans for Environmental Protection have sponsored a TV ad on climate change to run in Austin this week. The goal is to drum up support for the several bills on climate change currently before the Texas Legislature. Here it is: There's also an article about the ad in the Austin-American Statesman here.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, shameless self-promotion, state politics, Texas (all these topics)

I wear my solar panels at night Solar that doesn't need direct sunlight	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
Solar that doesn't require direct sunlight: [G24i] uses nano-sized titanium crystals, which turn sunlight into electricity in a process similar to photosynthesis (the method plants use to store the energy from sunlight in sugars). Because G24i's technology is more powerful than other solar cells, it does not need direct sunlight to generate electricity and can work even in rainy Wales. The use of nanotechnology also makes the cells lighter, more powerful and mor ...
Topics: climate, energy, solar voltaic power, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Let's Give 'Em Something to Not Talk About U.S. negotiators edit climate out of G8 climate draft		14 May 2007	Daily Grist
Let's Give 'Em Something to Not Talk About U.S. negotiators edit climate out of G8 climate draft Here's a comforting thought for a Monday: your future is being played like a poker hand. Next month, the leaders of the G8 nations will meet in Germany along with the heads of China, India, South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil. With hopes of agreeing on climate-change action, Germany has circul ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, international treaties, news (all these topics)

U.S. pushing to weaken G8 climate declaration This is getting old	David Roberts	12 May 2007	Gristmill
Next month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will convene a summit of the G8 countries, which will issue a joint declaration on climate change. Here's how that's going: A draft proposal dated April 2007 that is being debated in Bonn, Germany, this weekend by senior officials of the Group of Eight includes a pledge to limit the global temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, as well as an agreement to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions to 50 per ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

WWF on coal It's bad	David Roberts	11 May 2007	Gristmill
The WWF has a new briefing out called "Are the costs of using coal higher than the cost of cleaning it up?" It contains the standard "coal is the enemy of the human race" statistics, and concludes with six recommendations for how to reduce coal's impact on global warming: 1. Emerging economies need access to best-available-technologies including last-generation coal-fired power technology and support from G8 nations and the financial sector in ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

How do we restrain global warming? Will it be adaptation, mitigation ... or neither?	Kit Stolz	11 May 2007	Gristmill
Despite a lot of talk, this nation has done little to restrain global warming, either in terms of mitigating carbon emissions or adapting to the climate changes that will come. Some nations around the world -- wealthy nations such as Australia and the Netherlands -- are beginning to adapt, while poorer nations -- such as Malawi and India -- can't afford to. In a superb piece of reporting last month in The New York Times, four writers reported on "the climate d ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, environmental justice (all these topics)

Barack Obama is not serious about global warming That's what his support for CTL shows	David Roberts	11 May 2007	Gristmill
The LA Times has a long story about the growing conflict over coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuel. This is the most important paragraph in the piece, though it is inexplicably buried at the bottom: A new study has concluded that turning coal into liquid fuel yields 125% more carbon dioxide than producing diesel fuel and 66% more than gasoline. If the carbon dioxide is captured and permanently stored, liquid coal emits 20% more greenhouse gas than diesel but 11% less than conv ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, elections, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

War and global warming Between Iraq and a hard place	Gar Lipow	11 May 2007	Gristmill
I wonder how many people realize that the chances of nuclear war did not fall significantly with the end of the Cold War. A deliberate nuclear war, while a real risk, was always the outside chance. The worst danger -- an accidental nuclear launch -- is probably more likely today than it was prior to the fall of the Soviet empire. Neither the U.S. nor Russia have taken their missiles off hair trigger alert, and Russia's command and control system is deteriorating. When ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, international politics, national security (all these topics)

Newt Gingrich's 'green conservatism' It's not an alternative, it's a subset	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill
Newt Gingrich has a new book out called A Contract with the Earth, which purports to outline a "green conservatism." For a summary, you can check out this brief op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I approached it with an open mind -- eagerly, even. There's nothing I would like more than for a vibrant green conservatism to join the debate over the best way to accomplish green goals. That would be an enormous step forward from the current situation. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, messaging, Newt Gingrich, politics (all these topics)

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