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That's Crazy Talk! Fixing environmental problems necessary and doable, says OECD		05 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:20 PM on 05 Mar 2008 It is not only highly necessary but entirely affordable to tackle climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and other environmental problems, according to a report released Wednesday by some wacko environmentalists the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Summed up OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria: Solutions "are available, they are achi ...
Topics: air pollution, biodiversity, climate, climate change mitigation, news, water crisis, water pollution (all these topics)

Convention Wisdom Republican convention will go green		05 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:22 PM on 05 Mar 2008 Not to be outdone by the Democratic convention, the Republican convention will, indeed, go green. While hosting divisive delegate debates over the best way to address environmental issues from a GOP perspective, the Minneapolis convention hall will boast recycled-fiber carpet, booths and stages constructed of local, sustainably harvested wood, water in petroleum-free bottles, biodegradable plates, composted f ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, elections, Minnesota, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Climos Def New company wants to seed ocean with iron to sequester carbon		05 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:24 PM on 05 Mar 2008 Weeks after ocean-seeding company Planktos bit the iron dust, a startup called Climos is plowing ahead with a similar business plan: seed the ocean with iron dust to stimulate the growth of CO2-gobbling plankton, then sell offsets for the sequestered carbon. Climos has announced $3.5 million in venture capital and is backed by reputable investors: Tesla Chair (née Pay-Pal cofounder) Elon Mu ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics)

Cheap technology or cheap biology? Two solutions to global warming	Peter Donovan	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Will reducing or stopping carbon dioxide emissions stop global warming? Not according to the IPCC. The Fourth Assessment FAQ, section 10.3, notes that 'complete elimination of CO2 emissions is estimated to lead to a slow decrease in atmospheric CO2 of about 40 ppm over the 21st century.' By going cold turkey on fossil fuels, we only get down to about 1985 levels in 92 years. The oceans will continue to heat up. In other words, we might as well try to drive a big wood ...
Topics: climate change mitigation, climate (all these topics)

Adventures in carbon pricing California continues to innovate on the climate front, but still gets smoked by perky B.C.	Adam Stein	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A national carbon tax in the U.S. appears increasingly unlikely, but all sorts of interesting experiments in emissions pricing are underway regionally. First: the California Assembly this week votes on the California Clean Car Discount Act, a 'feebate' system that imposes a direct charge on sales of gas guzzlers and uses the funds to reward buyers of fuel sippers. The way it works it pretty simple. If you buy a Chevy Tahoe, you'll have to pony up a $2,500 fee, which wi ...
Topics: British Columbia, California, Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Turning CO2 into gasoline A new way to waste energy	Joseph Romm	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Last week, the NYT's Andy Revkin blogged about a federal laboratory that says it can take atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into gasoline: One selling point with Los Alamos's 'Green Freedom' concept, and similar ones, is that reusing the carbon atoms in the captured CO2 molecules as a fuel ingredient avoids the need to find huge repositories for the greenhouse gas. The only problem with that exciting statement is that it is almost certainly not true, a ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil (all these topics)

Taking charge of energy prices Our chance to escape the tightening fossil-fuel vise	Alan Durning	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
With or without climate policies, energy prices seem set to rise. The question is, Who will get the money? Auctioned cap-and-trade gives us the opportunity to take charge of price increases and share the benefits widely -- even while we safeguard the climate and stimulate local jobs. Big chances like this don't come along often! To see what a golden opportunity this is, we've got to briefly review recent fossil-fuel price increases. Energy prices have been risin ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, fossil fuels, oil (all these topics)

Hell, no, we won't, um, participate in a pollution permit trading system! Cali EJ groups reject cap-and-trade in strong terms	David Roberts	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A big coalition of environmental justice groups in California just came out with a strong statement opposing a cap-and-trade system and urging "fees" (i.e., taxes) instead. (Here's L.A. Times' coverage.) Their points are fairly familiar. Most of the opposition seems to be based on the well-documented failures of the European trading system -- which, as far as I know, every U.S. legislator is aware of. There's also something about the revenue from auction not ...
Topics: California, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental justice (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'I think this is a landmark decision in North America as far as government addressing global warming. The B.C. government has decided to use one of the most powerful incentives at its disposal to reduce pollution.' -- Ian Bruce of the Suzuki Foundation, on the carbon tax just implemented by the provincial government of British Columbia
Topics: British Columbia, Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, quotables (all these topics)

Tax-and-rebate vs. auction-and-rebate The major differences between carbon pricing plans are political	Gar Lipow	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Putting a price on carbon is probably an unavoidable part of phasing out fossil fuels to fight global warming and air pollution. For years, Peter Barnes has advocated a brilliant means of mitigating many of the harmful economic side effects: take the revenue from carbon taxes or auctions and rebate it back to the people, dividing it equally among each citizen. Barnes advocates doing this via an auctioned permit system. However,the same thing could be done with a car ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics)

A compulsive ... nontruth-teller John McCain avoids using the word 'mandatory' when discussing cap-and-trade	Joseph Romm	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
When will the media stop calling McCain a straight-talker and realize he is a pathological doubletalker? I realize the 'L' word is frowned upon in politics, so instead of using that word, which, in any case, doesn't do justice to the full range of doubletalk in the political arena -- let's just imagine there is an agreed-upon objective scale from 1 to 10 of veracity (with 5 being half-true) that goes something like this: (10) Fred Thompson, December 2007: 'I' ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Soldiering On Prince Charles, Richard Branson compare climate crisis to war		14 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:40 PM on 14 Feb 2008 Prince Charles warned in a speech on Thursday that if a "courageous and revolutionary" approach to tackling climate change is not undertaken, "the result will be catastrophe for all of us but with the poorest in our world hit hardest of all. In this sense it is surely comparable to war." Also this week, Virgin Group big gun Richard Branson suggested at a United Nation ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, news, Richard Branson (all these topics)

Strike While the Iron Is ... Whoops, Too Late Plan to combat warming by seeding ocean with iron runs out of funds		14 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:26 PM on 14 Feb 2008 Planktos, the company that proposed fending off global warming by seeding the ocean with iron dust, has failed to get enough funding to go forward with planned tests. Under the Planktos business plan, iron fertilization would encourage phytoplankton blooms, which would suck up extra CO2, allowing the company to sell carbon offsets. But it was not to ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics)

Get it right the first time Carl Pope of the Sierra Club lays out a blueprint for an effective climate bill	Guest author	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. ----- There are moments when a choice of pathways shapes the future -- and makes success either feasible or impossible. In light of the fact that all of the remaining leading presidential candidates call for some kind of action on global warming, and the Lieberman-Warner bill is already working its way through the Senate, almost everyone recognizes that sometime in the n ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental movement, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A post-energy-bill agenda Twelve simple things green groups can do about climate change	Ken Ward	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Hey, environmentalists! You passed the energy bill -- what're you gonna do now? Here are 12 things that could be undertaken with present resources: 1. Use The Flood Threat. Our climate story should be about the civilization-busting and mass extinction threat of Greenland and Antarctic ice-shelf break-up and rapid sea-level rise. This simple and honest story is far more powerful than the shifting laundry list of climate impacts we now put forward. The fatal flaw ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

At last, some climate progress Japan says it can meet Kyoto goals	Joseph Romm	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Reuters reports: Japan will be able to meet its greenhouse gas emissions limits agreed under the Kyoto Protocol through additional, mainly voluntary, agreements with industry, a government panel said. The measures will help Japan cut 37 million tonnes or more of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent a year, a joint panel on climate change under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of Environment said in a final report approved on F ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Japan, Kyoto Protocol (all these topics)

Ready to Barack and Roll Obama says will move immediately on international climate pact		11 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 5:05 PM on 11 Feb 2008 Prior to his weekend wins in Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barack Obama promised to begin developing the U.S. position on an international pact to halt global warming now, instead of waiting until 2009. "I've been in conversations with former Vice President [Al] Gore repeatedly, and his recommendation, which I think is sound, is that you c ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, climate change mitigation, elections, international politics, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Let's Get Technological G7 countries call for clean-technology fund for developing nations		11 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:05 PM on 11 Feb 2008 The Group of Seven richest nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the U.S. -- have called for investment in a multibillion-dollar fund to provide climate-change-fightin' clean technology to developing countries. source: Agence France-Presse From the Archives SRI About That. U.K. ethical funds investing in pseudo-green comp ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

Urban Legends Cities run into roadblocks in attempts to reduce CO2		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 8:21 AM on 08 Feb 2008 Announcing an ambitious plan to reduce a city's greenhouse gases is the easy part; when it comes to putting goals into action, local officials tend to run up against significant roadblocks. To take just a few examples: The subprime mortgage crisis has left taxpayers across the country unable to fund efficiency-minded proposals. Across the country, homeowners' associations have vetoed plans for ho ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, local politics, news, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade and fairness for working families A second opportunity to make climate pricing fair	Alan Durning	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Climate policy offers an enormous opportunity not only to undo our fossil-fuel addiction and build a stable energy future, but also to reverse the natural unfairness of climate change itself. I've said it before: energy prices are going up no matter what, with or without climate policy. But smart policy can turn rising costs into broadly shared benefits. It can shield working families, fund a shift to a clean future of new technologies, compact communities, and a tr ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

'You should shudder a little bit ...' According to Bush adviser, Bush actually serious about mandatory climate controls	Sean Casten	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This ($ub req'd) just in from Captain Environmental Compassion, Bush adviser James Connaughton: Bush is serious about climate change. Seriously! Surprised? Read on, for excerpts from this newsflash ... Their text in blocks below. My helpful translation follows. Despite its lack of support for a price on carbon, the Bush Administration isn't opposed to mandatory emissions cuts, said the Chairman of the Bush Administration's House Council on Environmental Quality, ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Fast Company Church of England urges carbon fast for Lent		05 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:43 PM on 05 Feb 2008 Planning to give up alcohol or chocolate for 40 days when the season of Lent begins tomorrow? Two Church of England bishops are urging churchgoers to instead take part in a carbon fast. From the Archives Unhappy Campers. Fewer folks are regularly getting out in nature, says study. Full of Mitt. Romney flip-flops, does not support California CO2 waiver. The Fellowship of the Ping. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Acronyms uber alles! Climate change mitigation in fewer than seven words	Gar Lipow	04 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In response to David's challenge, I decided to summarize not only the problem of global warming, but the solution, in fewer than seven words. I cheated, of course -- each word is an acronym (one stolen from David), with a phrase behind it and an accompanying elevator speech. XTRA-COOL: (XTRA Carbon Out Of Our Lives) URGE2 (Use Renewably Generated Electricity Efficiently) RAPID RESPONSE (Regulation And Public Investment Develops Renewable Energy, Supp ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Vaporware	David Roberts	04 Feb 2008	Gristmill
It's a few days old now, but don't miss Tyler Hamilton's column on CCS in the Toronto Star. It focuses on Canada, but the story is basically the same: despite all the talk and hype, carbon capture and storage is a long, long way off, subject to enormous logistics problems, and uncertain to succeed even under the most optimistic projections.
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Holistic climate medicine Our command-and-control air-pollution regulations are working against our climate policy	Sean Casten	04 Feb 2008	Gristmill
With the climate policy discussion now settling into lines of cap & trade vs. carbon tax, and allocation vs. auction, it has implicitly moved beyond the top-down, command-and-control models favored by early plans (and in particular the multi-pollutant, "4P" bills). This market focus is a good thing, on balance. What isn't good is that it's only being applied to greenhouse gas pollution. Our existing air pollution laws create disincentives to GHG reducti ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

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