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Wired jumps the shark once too often and is eaten alive Technophile mag spouts climate-tech nonsense	Joseph Romm	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Wired magazine used to be the place to go for the latest in technology. But now it covers any sexy techy idea, no matter how impractical. Given that we all have limited time, Wired should be off every technophile's must-read list and replaced by Technology Review, which has revamped its stodgy old self and become what once Wired aspired to be. For me, this started with the absurd cover story by Peter Schwartz 5 years ago, 'How Hydrogen Can Save America,' whic ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, hydrogen (all these topics)

California, California ... Here It Comes California announces specifics of greenhouse-gas reduction plans		26 Jun 2008	News
California, California ... Here It Comes California announces specifics of greenhouse-gas reduction plans Posted at 7:30 AM on 26 Jun 2008 On Thursday, California state regulators released specific plans to reduce California's greenhouse-gas emissions 10 percent from today's levels by 2020, the first phase of a scheme to reduce emissions 80 percent by 2050. The bulk of the outlined reductions are designed to come from programs the state has already begun work on, but have been stalled, most no ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

Achieving the climate goal Short-term targets key to long-term stabilization	Tony Kreindler	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ken Ward takes a worthwhile look at the goalposts for U.S. climate policy in his argument for making 350 parts per million the new bright line for success. We agree that we need to aim lower than 450 ppm -- the world is at roughly 380 ppm now, and we're already witnessing adverse climate impacts. But we part ways when it comes to how we're going to get there. Ward suggests that EDF's support for the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act can't be reconciled with a s ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Checks and the City Tokyo set to pass citywide cap-and-trade bill		24 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 8:32 AM on 24 Jun 2008 Tokyo, Japan, is on track to pass a bill on Wednesday that would limit the amount of greenhouse gases big companies in the city could emit, making it the first such mandatory program in the country. The city's 1,300 largest emitters are responsible for some 20 percent of Tokyo's total greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill aims to cap emissions from factories as well as office buildings starting in 20 ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Japan, news, politics (all these topics)

A modern-day Cassandra Thoughts on the 20th anniversary of James Hansen's historic Congressional testimony	Representative Ed Markey	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy -- of seeing the future. But she was also cursed to have no one believe her. For far too many years, Dr. James Hansen has been a modern-day Cassandra. Gifted with a scientific training that allowed him to see the forces at work that are warming the planet, for too many years he was also not believed by many who chose to ignore or deny the scientific reality of global warming. Today, it is my pleas ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, Ed Markey, James Hansen, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Stronger, simpler, fairer Upward from the Climate Security Act	Patrick Mazza	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Climate Solutions Policy Director K.C. Golden has some thoughts on where to go with national climate legislation after last week's down vote on the Climate Security Act. As thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped through the nation's capital last week, the U.S. Senate tied itself in a procedural knot, preventing a vote on the substance of the Climate Security Act -- the first meaningful climate legislation to reach the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid c ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation (all these topics)

IEA report, Part 2 I've got the 450-ppm solution about right	Joseph Romm	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Part 1 discussed the basic conclusion of the new International Energy Agency report -- cutting global emissions in half by 2050 is not costly. In fact, the total shift in investment needed to stabilize at 450 ppm is only about 1.1 percent of GDP per year, and that is not a 'cost' or hit to GDP, because much of that investment goes toward saving expensive fuel. In this post, I will discuss the basic solution IEA is proposing. I will also start to look at how the report ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Energy prices	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Conservatives want to terrify voters at the prospect of climate policy raising energy prices. Meanwhile: 'Wealth Evaporates as Gas Prices Clobber McMansions.' How long will we stay on this sinking ship?
Topics: climate change mitigation, economy, energy, gas prices, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Belly up! There is such a thing as a free lunch	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
You frequently hear that 'there's no such thing as a free lunch,' particularly when it comes to climate and energy policy. It's a mark of 'seriousness' to solemnly proclaim that it's all going to cost a lot of money and be very, very difficult. But the free-lunch canard is just another way of restating the central and most deleterious myth of conventional economics: full employment, the notion that our capital and energy resources are optimally deployed, and thus ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, messaging (all these topics)

Conservatives and climate change, continued A carbon policy is likely to be less devastating than nature, or oil markets	Ryan Avent	08 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Reihan responds. Let me just say a few more things. First, I described his characterization of carbon pricing as 'insane' based on this: What we need is a $100 billion prize or set of prizes to the person or firm or non-profit entity that can devise a cost-effective means of scrubbing the atmosphere of carbon emissions. This sounds insane, I realize. It is less insane than the far costlier, far less egalitarian regulatory alternative. Just to clarify. Next, Reiha ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, gas prices, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The conservative climate change problem An acknowledge-and-do-nothing strategy is little better than denialism	Ryan Avent	08 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Reihan Salam writes an incredibly disappointing, and boggling, blog post here, on his preferred strategies for dealing with climate change. Disappointing, because if Reihan, one of the best conservative writers out there, doesn't get the logic of carbon pricing, then there's little hope for some sort of conservative renaissance on climate change policy. Boggling, because Reihan is too smart a guy to get so many things wrong in such a short amount of time.Let me sta ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Revkin: Can tax-and-dividend break the political deadlock? Now that L-W is dead, Barnes' sky trust is looking good	Gar Lipow	07 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Revkin speculates that Barnes' proposal is a way to break the deadlock stopping climate change legislation. I think he may be right. Tax emissions. (Or cap them and auction permits.) Refund the revenue to everybody. It has the following political advantages: It is simple and easy to understand. It puts a price on emissions without really penalizing anybody. It is a no-hair-shirt solution. This last point is worth emphasizing. It does not punish consumers, be ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Avoiding Weekend at Bernie's 2 Post-post mortem on Boxer-Lieberman-Warner debate	Joseph Romm	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
OK, so the long-dead B-L-W bill got propped up and dragged around for a few days. (Tagline: B-L-W may be dead, but it's the life of the party!) But I think the debate was quite useful for two reasons: The opponents of (even modest) action played and overplayed their cards. Now we know that the health and well-being of future generations is of no interest in them. Now we know what their primary arguments will be. This is the opportunity for progressives and mode ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, movies, politics (all these topics)

Tough but fair criticism BBC program on Kyoto offsets	Gar Lipow	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The idea behind offsets is that you pay someone else to reduce emissions on your behalf when they can make the reductions more cheaply than you can. The leading offset method use to fight climate chaos is the Clean Development Mechanism. This is an extremely controversial topic, with many (including me) contending it does not work. The BBC has an excellent radio broadcast covering both sides of the controversy. The broadcaster concludes that offsets don't make sense. But ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

We Spend That Before Breakfast Mere $45 trillion needed to tackle climate change, says IEA		06 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 06 Jun 2008 A G8-backed goal to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 would take a global clean-technology investment of merely $45 trillion, the International Energy Agency said in a report Friday. That's about 1.1 percent of the world's average annual gross domestic product through 2050; more overwhelmingly, it's also about three times the size of the current U.S. economy. To meet ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, G8, news (all these topics)

Feeding climate change Still more reasons to eat local and lay off the beef	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Elizabeth Thomsen via Flickr. Increasingly, consumers are trying to reduce the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. But it's not so easy to know what to do, in part because of the bewildering array of food choices the market offers, but also because it's hard to know what food choices carry the biggest impact. This nifty study tries to clear away some of the murk by tackling a fairly straightforward question: If you care about the climat ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, food, local food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Who is being misleading? A Post columnist's defenders can't salvage his poor cap-and-trade logic	Ryan Avent	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Tyler Cowen weighs in on the cap-and-trade debate. He focuses on my criticism of Samuelson's seeming failure to understand the relationship between cap-and-trade and a carbon tax: But Samuelson is correct here and Avent is misleading. When there is uncertainty about the location of the social optimum, and uncertainty about elasticities, a carbon tax and cap-and-trade are by no means equivalent. If you see very high costs from setting the binding cap too l ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, messaging (all these topics)

Take a Number On carbon calculators	Umbra Fisk	04 Jun 2008	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, I recently heard an interesting interview on NPR, and the speaker was talking about how, to stop global warming, all humans would have to limit their carbon emissions to just one ton of carbon per person, per year. I've never weighed my carbon emissions, but I'm going to guess that I throw a lot more weight around than one ton. What would I have to do to slim my ton to one? I'm approaching my carbon tonnage like a diet ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, climate change mitigation, ecological footprint, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Ah, the 'Can't do' spirit Standing up to Samuelson	Joseph Romm	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This post is by Bracken Hendricks, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. ----- In Monday's Washington Post, and a parallel piece in Newsweek, Robert Samuelson gets it wildly wrong on cap-and-trade, parroting a litany of falsehoods and misrepresentations concerning the most probable federal policy for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Like most detractors of action on global warming, Samuelson continues to push the unsubstantiated notion that reducing emi ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Nukes of hazard The self-limiting future of nuclear power, Part I	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
My analysis on nuclear power for the Center for American Progress Action Fund is finally finished and online. I think you will find it useful because it has many links to primary sources and tries to avoid the typical discussions by nuclear proponents and opponents, focusing instead on the rapidly escalating cost of nuclear power. My point in this paper is not to say nuclear power will play no role in the fight to stay below 450 ppm of atmospheric CO2 concentrations ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Bonn of Contention Yet another international climate meeting gets rollin'		02 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:19 PM on 02 Jun 2008 Yet another round of international climate talks has kicked off, this time in Bonn, Germany. More than 2,000 delegates from 162 countries will chit-chat over the next two weeks about the details of an agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. But no significant steps forward are expected out of Bonn; most major decisions on the next treaty have been put off until 2009, when the U.S. delegat ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, international treaties, news (all these topics)

Krauthammer, Part II The real reason conservatives don't believe in climate science	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Part I discussed the odd anti-science part of Krauthammer's screed, 'Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment.' I ended by asking, Why does he break faith with so many conservatives and worship at the altar of evolution science, but stick with them on climate denial? My book discusses this general question at length, and offers the answer: The answer is that ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to g ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, dumbassery (all these topics)

Ten industry arguments against action on global warming ... and why they are wrong	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
For the debate on Boxer-Lieberman-Warner, Daniel J. Weiss, Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress, has written a debunking of standard attack lines on climate action. Here are the myths he takes on: Binding emissions reductions before 2020 are too swift, and should not be imposed until the technology to remove carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants is commercially available. Global warming reductions will drive oil and gasoline prices ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Let's shoot a little higher	David Roberts	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Charles Blow says 'we need to declare a coordinated war on climate change akin to the wars on drugs and terror.' Surely we can do better than that.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Lethal injections Science: Geo-engineering scheme damages the ozone layer	Joseph Romm	30 May 2008	Gristmill
Science has published a major new study, 'The Sensitivity of Polar Ozone Depletion to Proposed Geoengineering Schemes' ($ub. req'd). The study finds: The large burden of sulfate aerosols injected into the stratosphere by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 cooled Earth and enhanced the destruction of polar ozone in the subsequent few years. The continuous injection of sulfur into the stratosphere has been suggested as a 'geoengineering' scheme to counteract global w ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, geoengineering, ozone (all these topics)

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