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Carbon-free air travel We've got it figured out	Adam Browning	03 May 2007	Gristmill
It's a big problem, but I've been thinking hard about it and I think I've got it figured out: Of course, it will take a while to perfect the technology. Nominate test-pilots in the comments. For my part, I nominate anyone who complains about Al Gore's plane travel without making an equivalent effort to fight global warming. Here's your chance to show him up, big-time.
Topics: green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Something for everyone in the nuclear debate A good argument	John McGrath	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Via Brad Plumer, this might be the most honest, good-faith argument about nuclear power I've read in the last, oh, year or so. You can read Max Schulz's pro-nuclear argument here, and then read the anti-nuclear side by Bruce Smith and Arjun Makhijani. No surprise, I come down on the anti-nuclear side myself, but at least Schulz doesn't simply ignore or refuse to acknowledge the real risks of nuclear power (waste, proliferation, costs). And in his reply at the bottom ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Infosmog Information technology accounts for 2 percent of world's CO2 emmissions	Jerome Woody	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Just as Steve Jobs was polishing the final draft of his defense of Apple's environmental programs, computer industry analyst firm Gartner announced to the world its findings about Global IT's carbon footprint. It's not good. As an industry, information technology accounts for 2 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, placing it in the same club as the aviation industry. The causes are numerous, including increasing power consumption, use of refrigerator-l ...
Topics: business, climate, e-waste, greenhouse-gas emissions, tech (all these topics)

Cynics can't keep up Sawing off the limbs we've climbed up to see	JMG	03 May 2007	Gristmill
From the article 'Holiday at the End of the Earth: Tourists Paying to See Global Warming in Action,' posted on Common Dreams: 'The idea of global-warming tourism is full of ironies,' he said. 'If enough people expend enough fossil fuels to visit one Warming Island, they will ensure that there will be many more.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Another blow against denial New Monbiot piece	JMG	01 May 2007	Gristmill
From 'The Rich World's Policy on Greenhouse Gas Now Seems Clear: Millions Will Die,' by George Monbiot: Rich nations seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie. You won't find this statement in the draft of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was leaked to the Guardian last week. But as soon as you understand the numbers, the words form before your eyes. The governments making genuine efforts to tackle global warming are usi ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC, politics (all these topics)

Six months to a trimmer footprint How to reduce your household energy consumption, easy-like	Charles Komanoff	01 May 2007	Gristmill
Last Sunday's New York Times honed in on the dubious practice of Americans buying carbon offsets to brand themselves carbon-neutral. Andy Revkin, the paper's global-warming reporter, quoted me saying, "There isn't a single American household above the poverty line that couldn't cut their CO2 at least 25 percent in six months through a straightforward series of fairly simple and terrifically cost-effective measures." My claim has hit a nerve. Despi ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

A refreshing change of pace: sensible policy Imagine: charging polluters to encourage the others!	JMG	29 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Sam Smith, publisher of the estimable e-letter The Progressive Review, is perhaps the ultimate pragmatic environmentalist, with a sharp eye for what works and a sharper ability to deflate the pompous and overly-self-loving. He is often the sole commenter picking up on policy proposals and practices that a less parochial media less obsessed with infotainment would be interested in -- such as the success of congestion charges in London's central district, implemented by Mayor 'Re ...
Topics: cars, climate, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, London, placemaking, public transportation, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Do carbon offsets provide a false sense of security? Dueling assumptions	David Roberts	29 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Kudos to Andy Revkin for giving some exposure to (occasional contributor) Charles Komanoff of Carbon Tax Center fame. Komanoff articulates a common fear about carbon offsets: Charles Komanoff, an energy economist in New York, said the commercial market in climate neutrality could have even more harmful effects. It could, by suggesting there's an easy way out, blunt public support for what will really be needed in the long run, he said: a binding limit on emissi ...
Topics: climate, carbon offsets, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

CO2 rise lags temperature rise, redux	David Roberts	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
One of the most persistent climate skeptic talking points has to do with how temperature rise seems to lag behind CO2 rise in the historical record, raising questions about the direction of causality. Maybe temperature rise causes CO2 rise rather than the other way around! Our own Mr. Beck addressed the point here, but today RealClimate takes yet another go at it. Of course, skeptic talking points are like zombies -- they never stay dead -- so I'm sure we'll revisi ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Sorry climate, I had to dust my keyboard Why we should ban compressed chemical dusters	Eric de Place	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I have an untidy habit of eating while I'm working on my computer. Heck, I'm eating a doughnut while I write this post. Unfortunately, my habit inevitably results in little crumbs of sandwich or potato chips or whatever making their way onto my computer keyboard. Every once in a while I look down at my crumb-ridden keyboard, get disgusted, and embark on a cleaning frenzy. And as many office workers may know, one of the easiest ways to clean a keyboard is with those ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, ozone (all these topics)

Hustle and Muscle Schwarzenegger, frustrated by inaction, threatens to sue U.S. EPA		26 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Hustle and Muscle Schwarzenegger, frustrated by inaction, threatens to sue U.S. EPA In a smackdown between U.S. EPA head Stephen Johnson and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), who would you bet on? It's OK if you need time to ponder, because their battle is unfolding in slow motion. On Tuesday, Johnson said he had begun the process of considering California's req ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, US EPA (all these topics)

The Nation takes on climate change Lots o' goodies	David Roberts	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Nation has devoted its current issue to "surviving the climate crisis," and it's chock full o' good stuff. First up is Jim Hansen, the World's Least Censored Censored Scientist, who recommends the following five steps: "First, there should be a moratorium on building any more coal-fired power plants until we have the technology to capture and sequester the CO2." A gradually increasing price on CO2 emissions. Energy-efficiency sta ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Help the "don't be evil" folks raise their sights a little higher Will Google Maps or Mapquest be the first to help folks travel green?	JMG	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Frustrated yet again trying to use Google Maps and Mapquest to figure out a bike route to someplace I've never been, I had a sudden realization -- these folks are missing a huge business opportunity. One that you can help them recognize.Think about it: why do online mapping services assume you're driving? Why don't they let you tell them 'I want a bike route' or 'I want to use transit.' First and foremost, because we've all been conditioned to accept the view that gettin ...
Topics: green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, websites (all these topics)

An end-game scenario, supply-side policy, and defining our goal: The solution statement Here's what we have to accomplish	Ken Ward	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include)) The supply-side solution developed in the Bright Lines exercise, drawing on Bill Hare's Greenpeace International paper "Climate Protection: The Carbon Logic" (PDF), won little support from first readers. It is included in this proposal as a concept to be explored because no other solution could be determined to meet the dictates of the climate timeframe -- and the strong responses it provokes are evidence of its strong narrative value. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The jet set Only the little people fly scheduled airlines	JMG	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In response to this story, about how the airport tax paid by proles being herded onto commercial boxcars is spent to make life even cushier for the big guys flying Lear jets, someone defended the poor abused jet setters thus: It is worth pointing out that those 'Learjets' burn bunches of fuel and pay the corresponding fuel taxes, so they aren't getting a totally free ride. Figure 200 gallons an hour as a usable figure (jet pilots figure burn in pounds, with taxes of $.50 a ga ...
Topics: energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

We Just Ran This Story So We Could Say 'Chunnel' Eurostar will reduce emissions, offset the rest		18 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
We Just Ran This Story So We Could Say "Chunnel" Eurostar will reduce emissions, offset the rest Of trains, planes, and automobiles, locomotives already have the best rep for carbon emissions -- but one operator is on track to boost the bar higher. Eurostar, which shuttles commuters under the English Channel, plans to reduce CO2 emissions 25 percent per traveler ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, news, placemaking, public transportation, United Kingdom (all these topics)

IPCC Working Group III goes after transportation pollution If you won't go after them, we will	Joseph Romm	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The IPCC reports are some of the most highly anticipated of 2007. An obvious sign? Within two weeks of one report's release, papers are already covering a leak from the next. IPCC Working Group III's focus is on mitigation, meaning a fair number of policy implications can be derived from its conclusions. So here's a hint for America's auto industry: the report calls for urgent action on road pollution. In the United States, there are 483 passenger cars per 1,00 ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC, litigation, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

A convenient truth In nearby Bothell	Clark Williams-Derry	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Seattle Times is reporting on a Bothell family -- the Fraleys -- who are attempting to cut their family's greenhouse-gas emissions by 15 percent in May. Bully for them, and best of luck! Still, there's something about the Times account of their experiment that rankles, just a bit. It leaves a casual reader with the impression that reducing carbon emissions is a total pain in the behind. To wit: [The Fraleys] will try to reduce the household's greenhou ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, Seattle (all these topics)

Oh, It's Unparalleled All Right U.S. claims emissions-reduction success, U.N. Security Council debates climate		17 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Oh, It's Unparalleled All Right U.S. claims emissions-reduction success, U.N. Security Council debates climate Today, for the first time ever, the U.N. Security Council will take up the topic of climate change and world security. "The security implications of climate changes are bigger than we thought even two or three years ago," says John Ashton, a cl ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, national security, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Conoco Your Own Way First major U.S. oil company joins coalition to limit greenhouse gases		12 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Conoco Your Own Way First major U.S. oil company joins coalition to limit greenhouse gases You thought the times were a-changin' in the '60s? Meet 2007, baby! This week, ConocoPhillips became the first major U.S. oil company to join the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of green groups and corporations begging Congress to impose federal limits on greenhouse gases forthelovag ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oil sands (all these topics)

Show me the money How to save the last carbon sinks	biodiversivist	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Marcel Silvius recently declared in the Herald Tribune that palm oil is a failure as a biofuel. Rhett Butler over at Mongabay thinks otherwise, as he argues in an article titled, um, 'Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel.' His main point is that even if America and Europe were to reject palm oil biodiesel as inherently unsustainable, the forests would still be converted to palm oil by China. We can't stop its development by refusing to use it, so we (by 'we' he mean ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, China, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Do They Even Have Roads There? Vermont court hears landmark vehicle-emissions case		09 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Do They Even Have Roads There? Vermont court hears landmark vehicle-emissions case This week, the U.S. state with the fewest registered cars will take the driver's seat in the race to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions. A Vermont court will hear a landmark case on whether the state's adoption of a stringent California emissions law is legal. Under the Clean Air Act, states ...
Topics: cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, state politics, Vermont (all these topics)

Brakes on a Plane Flight ads should carry health warnings, says U.K. group		06 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Brakes on a Plane Flight ads should carry health warnings, says U.K. group Advertisements for flights should include a health warning, tobacco-style, to remind people of their contribution to climate change, a U.K. think tank said this week. (So creative, those Brits!) "The evidence that aviation damages the atmosphere is just as clear as t ...
Topics: advertising, air travel, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

A remarkable consistency Corporatists overestimate environmental response costs every time	JMG	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A friend sends an article from a legal publication that makes an important point about economists and other naysayers who insist that addressing global climate disruption will be too expensive. (Oddly, the same people always gassing on about boundless human potential when it comes to imagining new substitutes for depleting resources always forget to incorporate that creativity in their projections of the cost of fixing environmental problems.) A key excerpt (my emphasis):The ...
Topics: business, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Rogers and Me An interview with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers	Amanda Griscom Little	04 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Meet Jim Rogers, a great American paradox. He's the top gun at Duke Energy, a huge (and hugely polluting) power company; he's also one of the nation's most dogged advocates for federal regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions. Jim Rogers. Duke Energy operates smack in the heart of coal country in the Midwest and Southeast and derives 70 percent of its power from the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. Rogers ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greenish companies, interview, regulation (all these topics)

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