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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 change mitigation, climate (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)

Concentrations v. emissions Tackling the biggest source of climate confusion	Joseph Romm	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Avoiding catastrophic global warming requires stabilizing carbon dioxide concentrations, not emissions. Studies find that many, if not most, people are confused about this, including highly educated graduate students. I have personally found even well informed people are confused on this point and its crucial implications. We need to cut emissions 50 to 80 percent below current levels just to stop concentrations from rising. And global temperatures will not be stabi ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade: The economic fairness issue Grandfathering is Robin Hood's evil twin	Alan Durning	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Climate change is regressive. Its effects punish the least fortunate the most -- those who've contributed little to and gained little from polluting economies. But the solutions to climate change can be progressive. Done right, they can share fairly the burdens and opportunities of preventing climate disruption. I said 'can.' If poorly designed, climate policy can also be viciously regressive -- a vacuum cleaner sucking up working families' earning. That's why i ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

An infrastructure problem Public works and investment must be part of the solution to global warming	Gar Lipow	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As I've said before, certain types of goods -- public goods -- simply cannot be allocated efficiently through market mechanisms alone, even if we get prices right. Now this is not a 'government good/private sector bad' post. It is a suggestion, as was my original post on this subject, that a market system requires not only regulation but large-scale public investment, and that one of the places we are making way too few public investments is energy infrastructure. Again, ...
Topics: economy, climate, energy, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Battlefield earth	David Roberts	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In a piece in Foreign Policy, Jamais Cascio goes straight at one of the things that scares me most about "geoengineering" -- the potential, should such techniques be developed, that they will be used for less-than-benign ends. Nuclear war scares the hell out of us, right? Why would it not scare us to think that any country on earth could, relatively cheaply, alter the entire planet's atmosphere? Or even that a concerted group of individuals could? It's nuts ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming: Now available free online! Book shows we can meet hard targets in stopping climate change	Gar Lipow	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As the climate crisis grows worse, many people question whether we can phase out human greenhouse-gas emissions before an irreversible feedback cycle begins. As a belated New Year's present for 2008, I want to offer for free the full text of my book Cooling It! No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming, to increase optimism. We not only have the technical capability to phase out fossil fuels over the course of 30 years, we can eliminate 94 percent of emissions withi ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

House carbon offsets 'a waste of taxpayer money' Funds for offsets shouldn't reward past environmental behavior	Joseph Romm	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
If you must buy carbon offsets, caveat emptor -- in particular, don't buy them from the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). That is the point of a terrific front-page article in the Washington Post: 'Value of U.S. House's Carbon Offsets Is Murky, Some Question Effectiveness of $89,000 Purchase to Balance Out Greenhouse Gas Emissions.' Yes, it is nice to be quoted above the fold in any major newspaper -- the quote in the headline is from me -- but the reason I think the ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Auctioneering An account of a House hearing on auctioning permits under cap-and-trade	David Roberts	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Last Wednesday, the House Global Warming Committee held a hearing on "auctions and revenue recycling in cap and trade," which took a close look at the advantages of auctioning (rather than giving away) pollution permits under a cap and trade system, and what might be done with the revenue. I didn't manage to watch the hearing, but as always it has been ably summarized by the mysteriously monickered The Cunctator, publisher and editor of Hill Heat. If you're ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

We don't need no thought control Schools should be talking about climate change solutions	Nathan Wyeth	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
At some point in the 1980s or 1990s, environmental issues became hopelessly and depressingly politicized. By 'politicized,' I mean it stopped being acceptable to talk about environmental issues in, for instance, a high-school setting, in the same way that evolution was made into a controversial subject to talk about in many school settings. I'm not sure when I would pinpoint that this politicization really sunk in, but I'd be interested in what those who were around at ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, climate change mitigation, education, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Words of wisdom from the CAFE champ How we can make progress with climate change mitigation	Frank O'Donnell	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
There's a great deal of buzz in D.C. right now over the prospects of the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. A major environmental group (Environmental Defense) is running radio spots urging congressional passage this year, while a key Lieberman aide has been quoted as saying that the already compromised bill is open for further compromise (if that will get more votes). One issue up for discussion is preemption -- that is, taking away the right of states to limit greenh ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, progress (all these topics)

Notable quotable What is a conservative?	Sean Casten	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
From Restructuring Today ($ub req'd), reporting on Markey's hearings on allocation vs. auction as a cap & trade methodology: Even conservative Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw believes a free allocation amounts to corporate welfare. Even conservative?
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, politics, quotables (all these topics)

As nations trail behind ... States and provinces lead on climate initiatives	Patrick Mazza	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'State and regional governments around the world ... are fast becoming an essential and effective part of the movement to combat climate change,' says The Climate Group in a new report.'Low Carbon Leader: States and Regions' (PDF) profiles 12 exemplars including California, which in 2006 enacted the first economy-wide cap on carbon emissions in the U.S., and Northeast states moving to implement the first U.S. carbon cap-and-trade system. The report notes that U.S. st ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, state politics (all these topics)

The Chopping Bloc European Union unveils detailed plans to cut GHG emissions		23 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:18 AM on 23 Jan 2008 European Union leaders today unveiled detailed draft plans to reduce E.U.-wide emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The plans would require utilities to buy all of their greenhouse-gas emissions permits beginning in 2013, as opposed to the current practice of allocating nearly all of them for free, which companies can then sell at a profit. Also starting in 2013, other heavil ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade 101	Joseph Romm	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Center for American Progress has put out a clear and concise description of 'What Is Cap and Trade, and How Can We Implement It Successfully?
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, education (all these topics)

He's So Transparent Prince Charles appears as hologram to speak in Abu Dhabi		22 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 22 Jan 2008 Prince Charles recently spoke to political leaders at the World Future energy summit in Abu Dhabi. But swallow your cries of jet-setting hypocrisy: Chas appeared as a hologram. "Scientists are now saying that the problem of climate change is now so grave and so urgent that we have less than 10 years to slow, stop, and reverse greenhouse-gas emissions," said the virtual prince. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, innovation, news (all these topics)

Fat earthers The parallels between accepting obesity and ignoring global warming	Andrew Dessler	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I have recently been thinking about the parallels between climate change and the obesity epidemic facing the United States and other industrialized countries. Both are the result of our society's desire to consume, and there are similarities in how we might respond. Photo: iStockphoto There are basically three ways to respond to obesity, and each has an analog for climate change. First, you can try to reduce caloric intake. Bob Park calls this the ther ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, health (all these topics)

The Norway We Were Norway aims to be carbon neutral by 2030		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:45 AM on 17 Jan 2008 Norway has announced it aims to be carbon neutral by 2030, 20 years earlier than its previous goal set last spring. Up to two-thirds of the emissions cuts will be made in Norway itself (though officials aren't sure precisely how yet). The other third will be offset by about $550 million a year in carbon credits, earned through combating deforestation in developing countries. Some green groups called the ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, Norway (all these topics)

A one-legged man in a butt kickin' contest Gingrich's further explications of green conservatism do not inspire confidence	David Roberts	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The more I see of Newt Gingrich's "conservative environmentalism," the less impressive it seems. The guy's offering run of the mill, crony capitalist conservatism with a shabby green paint job. The two top-tier public policy approaches to fighting climate change are: supporting green industries, practices, technologies, and infrastructure via subsidies, tax breaks, or mandates, and restricting and reducing GHGs via regulation. The first is ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Watch the 'Face It' webcast There is a silver-bullet solution to global warming	Edward Mazria	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The dialogue between this country's youth and key decision-makers during the important Focus the Nation (FTN) event on January 31st has the potential to become diluted and confused. If it does, another opportunity to move a segment of the country towards seriously addressing climate change will have been wasted. Shotgun Approach Falls Short Although every personal effort at reducing energy use and greenhouse-gas emissions is laudable and helps change the way ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy (all these topics)

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