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State Statement Governors gather to gab about climate		16 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:18 AM on 16 Apr 2008 A group of influential governors will meet this week at Yale University to discuss taking the reins in the fight against climate change. The discussion will center around "blending a set of state efforts, some of which are already up and running, with an emerging federal climate system," according to Dan Esty, the director of Yale's Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Those state efforts includ ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Don't Beat Around the Bush Bush prepares to give climate speech		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:56 PM on 15 Apr 2008 As suspected, President George W. Bush will spell out a strategy for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions in a speech today. According to a White House official, "He'll set a national economy-wide goal of stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025," but will decline to outline a specific plan. Bush will reportedly also say that he wants to put the brakes on greenhouse-gas emission ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Here, Have a Grain of Salt Bush may turn about-face, ask Congress to address climate change		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 14 Apr 2008 President Bush may soon announce that he wants Congress to pass a climate-change-fightin' bill, and will lay out suggestions for what that should include as early as this week, according to the Washington Times. Republican Congressfolk reportedly are cautioning the administration not to go too crazy. The U.S.-led climate group of major economies meets this week in Paris, ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, George Bush, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Lieberman-Warner: bad idea Greenpeace and FOE call Climate Security Act too limited; too slow	Sean Casten	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
It's time to call the Lieberman-Warner love train back to the station. This is not to say that we don't urgently need to immediately start reducing atmospheric GHG concentrations and get policies in place that price carbon. It is instead simply the observation that as L-W morphs into ever greater complexity, it becomes an ever-worse way to meet that goal. Like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, I rather doubt that L-W will go anywhere close to far enough to cure AGW ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Friends of the Earth, greenhouse-gas emissions, Greenpeace, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Welcome NYT readers to the debate of the decade: Technology development vs. deployment We've run out of time to wait for an unknown techno-fix to save us	Joseph Romm	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Andy Revkin wrote in The New York Times last weekend about what I believe is the climate debate of the decade. This post will serve as an introduction to this crucial topic for readers new and old. I will devote many posts this week to laying out the 'solution' to global warming, and a few to debunking the 'technology breakthrough' crowd.Why do I write so much about this topic of technology development vs. deployment, especially when it sometimes seems like I am a ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Department of Energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, tech (all these topics)

Can technology alone stop global warming? Three non-tech essentials for combating climate change	Joseph Romm	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Of course not. We need at least three other things: Major political change, to deploy the technologies fast enough. My first take on this is here ('Is 450 ppm [or less] politically possible? Part 1'). Major price change, to add a cost to emitting greenhouse gases that approximates the terrible damage done by them. All of the technology advances in renewables (or nuclear, or coal with carbon capture) that you can plausibly imagine in the next decade won't ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, tech (all these topics)

Them's the Brakes Manhattan congestion-pricing plan kicks the bucket		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 07 Apr 2008 Hopes had run high that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ambitious congestion-pricing plan for the Big Apple would move forward, but the measure has died a quiet death. Democratic members of the State Assembly, determining that the measure was overwhelmingly opposed, neglected to even bring it to the Assembly floor, instead shooting it down with a secret vote. The now-dead plan would have cha ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

350 ppm or bust Hansen paper released; WaPo fails to link to Grist	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Several posts on this site have mentioned a recent paper from James Hansen et al. -- Target CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? (PDF) -- which argues that the official E.U. target of 550 ppm global atmospheric CO2 is far too high, and that anything over 350 ppm risks putting human beings in a world radically different than anything they've ever known. The final version of the paper is now up, and there's been some good news coverage. For a good overview, see Ed Pil ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics)

Asking the right question The implicit assumption in Pielke Jr.'s Nature commentary	David Roberts	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Can we beat global warming with existing technology? I said here that "nobody believes" we have the technology available today to tackle global warming. Gar responded: yes, someone believes it, namely me. Lindsay Meisel from the Breakthrough Institute responded: yes, lots of enviros seem to believe it, and no, it's not true. Thinking more about this, it strikes me that that the question itself is deceptive. It's no wonder people seem to be talking past eac ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, politics, tech (all these topics)

As IMF! IMF report says economic costs of climate-change action negligible		04 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:35 AM on 04 Apr 2008 The International Monetary Fund said in a report released today that sharply reducing the world's carbon emissions will cost relatively little economically if a carbon-pricing scheme is adopted soon that includes all the major-emitting countries. The report didn't endorse one specific pricing mechanism, but said that either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system could work if it gradually ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

'Bombshell'? Really? RPJr.'s latest achievement in getting huge news coverage for saying very little	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I don't want to get too far into the kerfuffle over the Nature commentary from Pielke Jr. et al. Just a few quick and I guess fairly cynical thoughts: The trend toward "spontaneous" technology development and efficiency has been going on for centuries, only to pause during the last few years thanks to a burst of new dirty coal plants in the developing world. The whole commentary is premised on the idea that this is the new norm -- that "spontaneous&quo ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, tech (all these topics)

Value Advertised Gore-y climate ads are coming soon to a TV near you		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:11 PM on 01 Apr 2008 While it is not true that Al Gore is running for president (honestly, how do these rumors get started?), it is true that his Alliance for Climate Protection has officially launched a new "we" campaign. The ad campaign aims to spend $300 million over three years to create a sense of both urgency and solvability around the climate crisis. The first ad hits TVs on Wednesday, likening the ...
Topics: advertising, Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, messaging, news, politics, TV (all these topics)

Is 450 ppm (or less) politically possible? Part 1 We'll need a lot of Socolow and Pacala's wedges	Joseph Romm	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The short answer is: 'Not today -- not even close.' The long answer is the subject of this post. Regular readers know that the nation and the world currently lack the political will to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide at 450 ppm or even 550 ppm. The political impossibility is also obvious from anyone familiar with Princeton's 'stabilization wedges' [PDF] -- and if you aren't, you should be (technical paper here [PDF], less technical one here [ ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The adaptation trap 2: The not-so-honest broker More on Roger Pielke, Jr.	Joseph Romm	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Part 1, we saw that ... Adaptation as primary strategy for dealing with climate change is widely oversold. This is especially true as atmospheric CO2 concentrations approach 800 to 1,000 ppm, a likely outcome if we listen to either the delayers or deniers. A leading adaptation advocate and apparent delayer-1000, Roger Pielke, Jr., 'labels adaptation what is in fact mitigation, and his idea of mitigation is apparently research into adaptation.' Let me ela ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

A Journey of a Thousand Meetings ... Continues With Another Meeting U.N. climate talks open in Bangkok		31 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:29 AM on 31 Mar 2008 United Nations climate talks opened Monday in Bangkok, Thailand, as another step in the process of drafting a successor to the Kyoto Protocol climate-change treaty that expires in 2012. Officials admitted they didn't expect any breakthroughs at the meeting this week, but there is hope that the countries can manage to agree on an agenda for the new treaty as wel ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, United Nations (all these topics)

The adaptation trap and the nonskeptical delayers (like Roger Pielke) -- Part 1 Pielke labels adaptation what is actually mitigation	Joseph Romm	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The wheels may be falling off the media's climate discussion, if a recent L.A. Times piece is any evidence. The piece, 'Global warming: Just deal with it, some scientists say,' is really an article about not dealing with it. The L.A. Times, with the help of the delayer-1000 du jour, Roger Pielke, Jr., has brought to prominence (and fallen for) what I call the 'adaptation trap': The adaptation trap is the belief that 1) 'it would be easier and cheaper to adapt than fig ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

Breaking the U.S.-China suicide pact William Chandler's recommendations on how we can cooperate to lower emissions	Joseph Romm	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
William Chandler, director of the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, has borrowed my phrase for the title of his new study: 'Breaking the Suicide Pact: U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change.' It begins: Together, China and the United States produce 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Their actions to curb or expand energy consumption will determine whether efforts to stop global climate change succeed or fail. If these two nations act to curb emissions, ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, United States (all these topics)

Down the rabbit hole with Roger L.A. Times mischaracterizes Pielke Jr.'s arguments in such a way as to make them newsworthy	David Roberts	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Early in this L.A. Times piece, reporter Alan Zarembo characterizes Roger Pielke Jr.'s views as follows: His research has led him to believe that it is cheaper and more effective to adapt to global warming than to fight it. Instead of spending trillions of dollars to stabilize carbon dioxide levels across the planet -- an enormously complex and expensive proposition -- the world could work on reducing hunger, storm damage, and disease now, thereby neutral ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

How do you make people change? What behavioral economics has to offer	Jason D Scorse	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Many critics of economists contend that because people aren't rational, economics has little predictive power. This is wrong for two reasons. First, people act relatively rational in many (if not most) circumstances; second, the deviations from rationality are predictable. As one of my professors at Berkeley used to say, it's not enough to say that people don't always act like perfect utility maximizers; the question is whether they do on average, and when they don't, ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, green living (all these topics)

Fair and balanced? NASA's Hansen responds to NYT's Revkin	Joseph Romm	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This post ends with an exclusive look at James Hansen's response to NYT journalist Andy Revkin's piece commenting on Hansen's (draft) article on why we need a CO2 target of 350 ppm. But first the backstory. Revkin used me as the 'balance' for his piece: Some longtime champions of Dr. Hansen, including the Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm, see some significant gaps in the paper (it is a draft still) and part ways with Dr. Hansen over whether such a goal is remotely f ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, climate science, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

The Pricing Is Right New York's new governor supports congestion pricing		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:40 PM on 24 Mar 2008 Brand-spankin'-new New York Gov. David Paterson has announced his support for a controversial congestion pricing plan. The proposal, put forward by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and supported by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, would charge $8 to drivers entering Manhattan during peak hours. Said Paterson in a written statement, "Congestion pricing addresses two urgent concerns of th ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Only You Can Prevent Climate Change Gore group will launch climate marketing campaign		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:42 AM on 24 Mar 2008 Photo: World Resources Institute Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend more than $300 million over the next three years on a marketing campaign aimed at getting Americans to address climate change. With ads developed by the Martin Agency (the folks behind the Geico cavemen and chatty gecko) and partnerships with grassroots groups, the campaign focus will be o ...
Topics: advertising, Al Gore, business, climate, climate change mitigation, grassroots activism, green products, news, United States (all these topics)

'Don't Soot': the Messenger Soot pollution a big contributor to climate change, study finds		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:01 AM on 24 Mar 2008 Soot pollution contributes significantly to climate change and is second only to carbon dioxide as a climate-warming factor, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The study estimates that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may have underestimated soot's role as a climate-warming factor by about three or four times. If the new rese ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Everybody cut soot loose New study: Ordinary soot second biggest driver of climate change	David Roberts	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
After carbon dioxide, the second largest contributor to global warming is ordinary soot, according to new research published Sunday in Nature Geoscience. So-called "black carbon" has up to 60 percent the warming effects of the more oft-noted culprit CO2. The implication is fairly radical: Quickly reducing soot could have substantial short-term effects on the rate of climate change. Whereas CO2 molecules stay in that atmosphere for years, soot particles st ...
Topics: air pollution, climate change mitigation, health, scientific research (all these topics)

A Doom With a Review Report by Australia economist suggests ambitious climate policy		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:38 AM on 21 Mar 2008 An interim report on the economic impact of climate change on Australia -- Oz's version of the Stern Review -- has been produced by economics professor Ross Garnaut. The government-commissioned Garnaut Review, which will be published in full in September, points out that Australia's dry climate, heavy reliance on agriculture, and tight trade relationships with developing countri ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, news, progress (all these topics)

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