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Shopping causes global warming Australian newspaper identifies consumerism as warming culprit	Tom Athanasiou	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I was just in Australia, spending some love miles (my wife is an Aussie) but also giving some talks, and while there I was interviewed by a journalist named Wendy Frew from the Sydney Morning Herald. She did a nice piece (August 9) on Greenhouse Development Rights called 'Rich will have to help poor to save climate,' which is perhaps notable for containing the dulcet phrase 'coal is the enemy of mankind.' But that's not what I'm writing about.What I'm writing a ...
Topics: climate, consumerism, ecological footprint, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, shopping (all these topics)

Mmmm ... low-hanging fruit Building professionals overestimate costs and underestimate benefits of green building	David Roberts	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A new study (PDF) from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development finds that folks in the real estate and construction businesses overestimate the cost of building green by 300%. Specifically, the 1,400 professionals surveyed across the globe estimated that: green building costs 17% more than normal building, when the reality is 5%, and greenhouse gases from buildings are 19% of the global total, when the reality is 40%. Got that? People in ...
Topics: green building, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Green movements or green paint China's central government faces a choice between democracy and eco-collapse	Jon Rynn	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
'Choking on Growth' is the apt title of the new New York Times series on the 'human toll, global impact and political challenge of China's epic pollution crisis.' Epic, indeed. The first installment shows how 'As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes.' The statistics are daunting: Public health is reeling. Pollution has made cancer China's leading cause of death... Nearly 500 million people lack access to safe drinking water. Chinese cities often seem wrapped in a ...
Topics: air pollution, China, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, international politics, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

The right target How much should we aim to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions?	David Roberts	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
As faithful Daily Grist readers know, yesterday six western states (and two Canadian provinces) formally debuted the Western Climate Initiative, a cap-and-trade agreement aiming to lower GHG emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Carbon neutral in his lifetime. Inevitably, announcements like this are met with heated debate over the target. Is it strong enough? Fast enough? Politically palatable? The 80%-by-2050 target seems to be gaining s ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Risk mismanagement Bjorn Lomborg's new book misunderstands risk and investment	David Roberts	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Jon A. Anda, President of the Environmental Markets Network, an organization within Environmental Defense focused on legislation to create an efficient carbon market. He was previously a Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley. ----- Bjorn Lomborg's forthcoming book says to Cool It about global warming. I am anxious to read the detailed rationale when the book is released in September. Based on his interviews about the book, as well as insigh ...
Topics: books, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Transportation is a big honking deal Responsible climate policy means reducing transportation emissions	Eric de Place	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
In the Northwest, it's impossible to address climate change without doing something about transportation. Take a look at this chart showing CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in Washington. In Washington (as in Oregon), everything else pales in comparison to the emissions that come from transportation. In fairness, the chart above shows only emission from fossil fuels. But fossil fuels represent better than four-fifths of the state's entire portfolio of green ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, fossil fuels, greenhouse-gas emissions, Washington (all these topics)

Moose tracks Bovines aren't the only ones to blame	Sarah van Schagen	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Thought cows were the only gassy animals belching up a climate change storm? Apparently the Scandinavian moose is also quite the methane machine: Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical university, said a motorist would have to drive [about 8,000 miles] in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year. That'll get you from New York to L.A. and back, with CO2 to spare.
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, wildlife (all these topics)

APEC's weak brew on climate Pacific Rim countries vow to do ... very little	David Roberts	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Throughout the year, members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation group (APEC) -- including the U.S., Japan, and Australia, among others -- have had a series of meetings. In early September, they will announce their grand plans, which, according to a leaked draft (PDF) obtained by the Sydney Morning Herald, contain "aspirational" greenhouse-gas emission targets. Here's what APEC will shoot for: Setting up a Network for Energy Technology to promote ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Regular oil cleaner than ethanol Saving and restoring forests better for climate than switching to biofuels	Glenn Hurowitz	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A new study in the journal Science ($ub req'd) validates what many have been saying here in Gristmill: Biofuels, especially those from the tropics, are far worse for the planet than regular old crude oil. The study finds that we could reduce global warming pollution two to nine times more by conserving or restoring forests and grasslands than by razing them and turning them into biofuels plantations -- even if we continue to use fossil fuels as our main source o ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, deforestation, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil, rainforests (all these topics)

Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture A new technology to reduce GHG emissions from coal plants	Joseph Romm	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The carbon capture and storage (CCS) discussion has focused on pre-combustion capture of CO2, since it has long been assumed that it is easier and cheaper than trying to capture the CO2 post-combustion from the flue gas (exhaust stream). The problem is: (1) that approach limits CCS to new coal plants, and (2) that requires utilities to build integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants, which are more expensive to build and more expensive to maintain. Po ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Heard it through the bovine Scientists try to reduce methane emissions by tweaking cow diets	Katy Balatero	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Did you know that cows belch every 40 seconds? I did not. A recent article in The Christian Science Monitor states this fun fact, and goes on to explain how scientists are trying to manipulate bovine diets to reduce the amount of methane that they emit: British researchers have begun a $1.5 million government research program to propose ways to change cows' diets in order to reduce methane production by feeding them grasses with higher levels of sugar, whi ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, food, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

U.S. taxpayers are paying to increase carbon emissions in the developing world Makes total sense!	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill
On the one hand, Bush and the Republicans say we're helpless to do anything about global warming until China and India act. On the other hand, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. are funneling billions in taxpayer dollars to huge corporations (think Halliburton and Bechtel) to help them construct carbon-intensive hard infrastructure projects: According to their own reports, the two agencies approved projects in recent years that an ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

A carbon tax even Dingell haters can love From Rep. John Larson	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Love the carbon tax but can't stand Dingell? Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) is your man. He just introduced a kick-ass carbon tax bill (PDF) to the House. From Greenwire ($ub req'd): Larson's legislation would set a $15 tax in its first year for every ton of carbon dioxide emissions from the oil, gas and coal industries, with the tax rising 10 percent annually while also keeping pace with inflation. Larson's office also released a memo (PDF) saying the tax would be 'e ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Interview with Thomas Casten, part three Why efficiency is the key to CO2 reduction	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill
DR: The conservative argument on global warming is that CO2 emissions are a good indicator of economic activity. They rise and fall together. Thus, fighting global warming is a secret UN plot to hobble the American economy relative to China and India. That's Inhofe's theory, anyway. TC: He's the only elected official in Washington that might possibly be stupider than the man in the White House. Even people that very much want to do something about global ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Where there's a will, there's a way; where there's a Samuelson, there's a whine We have what we need to beat global warming	David Roberts	14 Aug 2007	Gristmill
One of the consequences of lazy, defeatist mainstream discussion of climate change (see: Robert J. Samuelson) is goofballery like this piece in The New York Times. Michael Fitzgerald argues that because we don't yet have a weapon that can totally and awesomely kick global warming's ass, we should spend billions of public dollars on giganto-technologies like carbon sequestration and space-age masturbation aids like light-reflecting space particles. This is stupid. We ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Putting the Yeehaw in Hubris U.S. federal agencies, World Bank help developing countries emit more		14 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Putting the Yeehaw in Hubris U.S. federal agencies, World Bank help developing countries emit more President Bush has made clear his feelings on global-warming mitigation: "We all can make major strides, and yet there won't be a reduction until China and India are participants." So it seems a wee bit hypocritical that the United States is actually contributing to globa ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, United States, World Bank (all these topics)

Marrying efficiency and renewables A match made in heaven?	Joseph Romm	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Energy efficiency and renewable power together are better than either alone, according to a recent report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the American Council on Renewable Energy. Not a shocking conclusion, but an important one, especially in a world where it seems that all types of zero-carbon power are competing against each other for funding. The report finds that synergies between renewables and efficiency would cut greenhouse-gas em ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

California's attorney general cracks down on emissions, gets some enemies in the process Will he be able to weather the storm?	David Roberts	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Here's another semi-old story that I'm just now getting around to (and yes, I've forgotten how I found it). It's deceptively significant. Using California's tough environmental regs, state Attorney General Jerry Brown is throwing some elbows, trying to force a range of projects from housing developments to oil refineries to show how they'll reduce emissions. He's trying to change extremely ingrained behavior at a fairly micro level, and he's getting a whole mess of ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Repetto argues for upstream cap-and-trade More on carbon trading	Joseph Romm	07 Aug 2007	Gristmill
August is a time to catch up on reading. A good place to start is 'National Climate Policy: Choosing the Right Architecture' [PDF], by Yale's Robert Repetto, one of the country's leading experts on environmental and resource economics. He argues for an upstream cap-and-trade system, and against a safety valve. Other views can be found here, here, and here. This is Repetto's conclusion:It is extremely important that the U.S. adopt a good policy architecture for gr ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Test Drive New York to paste 'global warming index' stickers on some new vehicles		06 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Test Drive New York to paste "global warming index" stickers on some new vehicles New York has become the second state in the U.S. to require new cars and light trucks to bear a "global warming index" sticker. (We'll give you a minute to guess which one was first.) The law, which begins with the 2010 model year, aims to educate consumers and cut pollutio ...
Topics: cars, climate, consumerism, greenhouse-gas emissions, New York, news, shopping (all these topics)

Of cars and carbon How the Prius stacks up against other cars	Clark Williams-Derry	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Sure, everybody knows that what you drive affects how much you warm the climate. But after the jump: a chart that proves the point. Just to be clear: this includes only the emissions from the highway fuel itself. It doesn't include upstream emissions from drilling for oil and refining it into gasoline or diesel. And it doesn't include emissions from vehicle manufacturing. In other words, these are conservative figures -- so use them with caution. This is ...
Topics: cars, climate, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Carbon- and nuclear-free America possible by 2050 Now that's a 12-step program	JMG	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A hopeful press release touting an even more hopeful (wishful?) report: Takoma Park, MD -- At the G-8 summit in Germany in June 2007, President Bush promised to 'consider seriously' the European Union goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to limit global temperature rise to about 4 degrees Fahrenheit. A new study concludes that the United States could eliminate almost all of its carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2050. It also concludes that it is possible ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

For peat's sake, stop the palm oil madness It's not a 'sustainable' biofuel	Joseph Romm	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
So Europeans are buying Indonesian palm oil as a 'sustainable' biofuel, but it isn't sustainable, as we've noted before. The tragedy continues: Palm oil companies are burning peat forests to clear land for plantations in Indonesia's Riau province, despite government pledges to end forest fires ... Blazes have started flaring again since the end of June with the start of the dry season. How a big deal is this? As The New York Times put it earlier ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, deforestation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, logging (all these topics)

Brazil ...	David Roberts	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
... realizes that global warming is going to hurt it too, and starts to come around on the notion of market mechanisms that could prevent further deforestation in the Amazon, one of the principal global sources of greenhouse gas emissions.This is good news -- it needs to become more profitable to save the forest than to cut it down, and quickly.
Topics: Brazil, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

Magical pony plans: A public service announcement A note to the environmentally self-righteous	David Roberts	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Frequently, when a small, incremental measure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is proposed, environmental commentators argue that it should be rejected. Why? Because it is a "distraction," a way of enabling us to continue our horrid, depraved lifestyle, methadone for our addiction to iniquity, a sop to our corporate overlords, mere playing of games, a highly Unserious Frivolity, etc. etc. Instead, we should choose the Magical Pony Plan for a Totally and A ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

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