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Branson's statement
Worth about $20 million per word |
Amanda Griscom Little |
21 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Eliciting gasps and goosebumps at a press conference this morning at the Clinton Global Initiative in midtown Manhattan, Richard Branson, CEO of the mega-conglomerate Virgin Group, announced a commitment to invest a staggering $3 billion toward solving climate change, focusing his investments on developing biofuels and other oil alternatives. The transcript of his public vow follows: Our generation has inherited a very beautiful w ... |
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| Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, climate change mitigation, Richard Branson (all these topics) |
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I Speak for the Freeze
Gore calls for carbon freeze in major speech on climate solutions |
Amanda Griscom Little |
19 Sep 2006 |
Muckraker |
| It is "time for a national oil change," said Al Gore with a sly wink in his voice. "That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick." "Freeze right there!" says Gore. Photo: David Lodge/WireImage This was one of the few moments of comedy in what was billed as a "major policy address" yesterday by the former veep. ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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Gore's climate-policy speech today at NYU: a carbon freeze and a carbon tax proposed
After months of gloom and doom, Gore's all about solutions |
Amanda Griscom Little |
18 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Against a backdrop of eight American flags -- ceremoniously arranged behind a podium emblazoned with the scales of justice -- Al Gore took the stage at the New York University Law School early this afternoon to deliver what was billed in press releases as a 'major policy address on global warming.' Major it was -- in terms of the media turnout, anyway. There were nearly a half-dozen cameras rolling and most major publications represented ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics) |
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Media Shower: UK edition
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Chris Schults |
30 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Welcome to the (not-so-special) U.K. edition of Media Shower! First off, we have the BBC's focus on climate change chaos. Over at the BBC website, you'll find eight short documentaries (which don't want to play for me), in-depth coverage of climate change (including this guide), and a SETI@home-inspired climate change experiment. And then we have this: This commercial is part of the Friends of the Earth 'The Big Ask' campaign, which is about 'tackling the ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics) |
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Adaptation
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation (all these topics) |
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Peak oil, coal, and bizarre optimism
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David Roberts |
28 Mar 2006 |
Gristmill |
| So last week Salon ran a big story on peak oil by Katharine Mieszkowski. It was decent, though focused a bit too much on the loony fringes. I guess the temptation to do that is irresistible when trying to make a long story about the Hubbert Curve and Venezuelan oil reserves compelling. In response, John Quiggen (at the usually excellent Crooked Timber group blog) wrote a response I can only characterize as bizarre. But the comments under the post don't treat it a ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, oil (all these topics) |
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Politics & science, oil & water, cats & dogs
GAO to investigate whether Cooney's editing was illegal |
Emily Gertz |
30 Jun 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Chris Mooney has a good catch today: Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have asked the GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, to determine whether recently-resigned Bush administration official Philip Cooney violated federal statutes against obstruction of Congress and false statements. Cooney, as you may recall, is the former oil industry lobbyist, turned chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality who edited research rep ... |
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| Topics: climate change mitigation, jackassery, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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Forget about CO2 for a minute already
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David Roberts |
02 Mar 2005 |
Gristmill |
| It's a dirty secret in the blog world that occasionally bloggers will recommend that their readers read something that they themselves have not read. (Gasp.) But not this blog! At least, not any more! Or rather, at least not this time! Yesterday I was going to recommend "Bringing Society Back into the Climate Debate" (PDF), a new paper by Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz (found via their excellent Prometheus science blog). But then I re ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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Calling Africa to action on climate
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Lisa Hymas |
02 Dec 2004 |
Gristmill |
| Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and George W. Bush agree on one thing: developing nations need to do more to curb the threat of climate change. (Of course, they don't agree on the much more vexing question of whether overdeveloped nations -- one highly overdeveloped nation in particular -- should do anything to address the ballooning problem ...)Speaking last week at a UNEP climate workshop, Maathai, who presently serves as Kenya's deputy environment minister, t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Come On, Everybody Else Is Doing It
On climate change, other nations get cracking while the U.S. is slacking |
Amanda Griscom |
19 Dec 2003 |
Powers That Be |
| The recent Milan conference on the Kyoto Protocol started out with a bang -- a commotion of rumors about Russia's ratification of the treaty -- and went out with a whimper, offering no clear signal that the landmark accord on climate change would ever become international law. But one important development became clear amidst the flimflam: Kyoto-supporting c ... |
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| Topics: Canada, climate, climate change mitigation, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics) |
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Rocky Mountain High Tax
Aspen, Colo., taxes its way to a healthier climate |
Hal Clifford |
31 Jul 2002 |
Main Dish |
| Randy Udall charges more for a ton of carbon dioxide than anybody else in the world. Udall runs a unique, two-and-a-half-year-old program in Aspen and surrounding Pitkin County, Colo., that charges new homeowners up to $100,000 if they exceed the "energy budget" allotted to their property by the local building code. The money collected under the Renewable Energy Mitigation Program ... |
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| Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, Colorado, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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