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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: climate, energy, China, United States, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, climate change mitigation, economy (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 change mitigation, climate change adaptation, climate (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, climate change mitigation, climate science, James Hansen (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)

Two Strikes and You're Out Japan will shorten pro baseball games to cut emissions		19 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:34 AM on 19 Mar 2008 Japan's professional baseball league is aiming to reduce carbon emissions by using only renewable energy recycling everything aiming to shorten games by 12 minutes. Under new rules, no more than 2 minutes and 15 seconds may lapse between innings, and pitchers must throw the ball within 15 seconds of receiving it if no runners are on base. Baseball commissioners estimate that by sho ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Japan, news, sports (all these topics)

Oh, Canada! More on B.C.'s carbon tax shift	Alan Durning	13 Mar 2008	Gristmill
On February 19, one of my colleagues at Sightline applauded British Columbia's new carbon tax shift. I've now had time to digest the plan. It's even better than we said, and the province could tweak it to make it better still. This policy is the purest instance of a tax shift that I've ever seen. It's an exceptionally faithful implementation of tax shifting -- a policy innovation Sightline has been promoting since 1994 and especially since our 1998 book. (A small bra ...
Topics: British Columbia, cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Thirty years later, they still won't make us safer The history of the 'safety valve' debate	Joseph Romm	13 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The new publication from E&E News, ClimateWire, ($ub. req'd), has a long article on the 'safety valve' debate and its history. I will reprint it in its entirety below because The issue is important and not going away. It is the most thorough piece I've seen. I was interviewed at length for it. One of my quotes they used is not something I would have said in a short interview. First, some background: I have blogged repeatedly on why a safety valve is a ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action Please World's pollutingest countries to meet for climate talks in Japan		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 9:14 AM on 13 Mar 2008 The world's 20 biggest-polluting countries will meet in Japan on Friday for a three-day climate conference designed as a run-up to the July G8 meeting where current G8 leader Japan wants to put climate at the top of the agenda. Japan has expressed support for cutting G8-country emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 -- an ambitious- ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, news (all these topics)

Other carbon tax shifts A quick survey of carbon taxes outside of Cascadia	Alan Durning	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill
British Columbia's bombshell announcement of a carbon tax shift last month made me want some context. Here's a rundown of other carbon taxes elsewhere in the world. As I noted, none of them is as consistent and comprehensive as B.C.'s, though some do have higher tax rates. In most cases, these levies came in tax shifts that reduced payroll taxes, business taxes, or other energy taxes. B.C.'s starts at $10.10 per metric ton of CO2 equivalent and rises in steps to $30.30 ...
Topics: British Columbia, Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

The paragraphs Tom Athanasiou left out of his last post A brief summary of Tom & Paul's approach to international climate justice	Gar Lipow	11 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Tom Athanasiou's recent post, 'The greening of the global south,' he describes an article in U.K. magazine The Prospect as 'honest,' 'well-informed,' and 'criticizing the alternatives to trading.' I actually think these objections are pretty easy to answer, but in order to do so, I have to present the objections first. The article begins by adopting some of points Tom and Paul present in their book The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World: The ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

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