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To everything, turn turn turn	David Roberts	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
One inconclusive set of international meetings yielding weak climate resolutions ends -- another begins.
Topics: climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

They're Just Going Through a Phase Bush administration will propose quicker deadline for phasing out ozone-depleting chemicals		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:05 PM on 07 Sep 2007 Nearly 200 nations will gather on Sept. 15 to discuss the Montreal Protocol, a 20-year-old treaty put into place to phase out the nasty chemicals that contribute to the thinning of the ozone layer. At the meeting, a dozen countries plan to suggest that participating nations move up the deadline for a full phaseout of refrigerating chemic ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, international treaties, news, ozone, politics (all these topics)

We'd Blame Jet Lag, But ... Bush makes gaffes at APEC gathering, forum may set weak voluntary targets		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 07 Sep 2007 In Sydney, Australia, today at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, U.S. President George Bush referred to APEC as OPEC, then tried to cover up his gaffe by explaining that Australia's prime minister had invited him to a summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries next year. Unfortunately, Australia has never been part of OPEC. Bush also ...
Topics: climate, dumbassery , George Bush, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

The 'intensity' scam APEC's draft plan to reduce GHG intensity will do nothing to curb emissions	Andrew Dessler	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Reports coming out of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit say that a draft statement on climate change from the Pacific Rim nations is on the way. Early reports, however, contain this nugget: To strike the accord, negotiators agreed to set a target to reduce 'energy intensity' -- the amount of energy needed to produce economic growth, Al-Farisi said. Australian Prime Minister John Howard previously called for reducing energy intensity 25 percent ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Global warming can breed terror John Edwards links climate crisis and national security	Glenn Hurowitz	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
In a major speech today on national security, presidential candidate John Edwards talked about how fighting the climate crisis is an integral part of battling terror (it also requires less duct tape): Finally, we must achieve energy independence. If we reduce our reliance on oil from instable parts of the world, Middle Eastern regimes will finally diversify their economies and modernize their societies. And fighting global climate change will reduce global disrupt ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, international politics, John Edwards, politics (all these topics)

Rim Shot Pacific Rim nations meet to consider climate, unlikely to do much		04 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:32 PM on 04 Sep 2007 If you haven't had your fill of anticlimactic climate meetings, hark: climate is at the top of the agenda at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Sydney this week. APEC's 21 members -- Pacific Rim countries including the U.S., China, and Australia -- together consume about 60 percent of the world's energy, and thus are big players in global climate-affecting. But don't expect an ...
Topics: climate, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

While Greece burns ... Fires in Greece encouraged by global warming, developers	Kit Stolz	31 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Two years ago, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, conservatives and right-wingers were quick to deny any possible link to global warming. "As if any reputable expert believes this is in any way connected," huffed Andrew Sullivan on his well-known site. To his credit, Sullivan admitted just two days later that he may have blogged too soon, and said that experts such as Kerry Emmanuel had in fact linked global warming and more powerful hurricanes. In th ...
Topics: Greece, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Do as we say ... Developed world scolds China for doing what it does	David Roberts	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
For 200 years the Western world has plundered the world's oil and fouled its atmosphere, and despite a recent flurry of happy talk to the contrary, it is still doing so. So it's rich indeed for Merkel to go to China and ask them to please stop. If I were Premier Wen Jiabao, my response would be nothing but a raised middle finger. He's somewhat more polite about it.
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Import-Export Business How globalization is smothering U.S. fruit and vegetable farms	Tom Philpott	30 Aug 2007	Victual Reality
Earlier this month, President Bush roiled U.S. vegetable farmers by announcing a crackdown on undocumented workers. Last week, industrial-meat giant Smithfield Foods goosed the hog-futures market by inking a deal to export 60 million pounds of U.S.-grown pork to China. These events, unrelated though they seem, illustrate a common point: that despite all the recent fuss around loc ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, international politics, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Talkin' Latest round of UN climate talks focuses on energy investment	David Roberts	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Just how excited can one get by the latest round of international talks on climate change? This one is focused on business, specifically energy investment: A new report by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change says additional investments of about $210 billion a year will be needed - mostly in the developing world - to maintain greenhouse gas emissions at their current levels until 2030. 'If the funding available ... remains at its current level and con ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics, United Nations (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)

Sustainable math in East Asia East Asian countries could save money shifting to renewables, but aren't gonna	David Roberts	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
According to Greenpeace International, East Asian countries can save about $2 trillion in fuel costs over the next 23 years by shifting to renewable energy (abandoning plans for both coal and nuclear plants). Said dazzlingly monickered Greenpeace campaign coordinator Athena Ballasteros ... ... investment costs for new power plants in East Asia projected by the International Energy Agency (IEA) would total 490 billion dollars between 2004 and 2030. Under Greepeace's ...
Topics: Asia, energy, Greenpeace, international politics, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

A day late and a dollar short U.S. joins the 'I call the Arctic' bandwagon	Andrew Sharpless	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill
In the last few weeks, the U.S. has been kicking itself for not thinking to place a flag on the sea floor at the North Pole. But Russia is not the only country to have laid claim to the oil-rich area; other competitors include Canada, Denmark, and a pack of Siberian huskies that have been peeing there for ages. However, all of them are certainly in for a disappointment, because on Friday the U.S. struck back, by sending out a team of scientists to map the area. ...
Topics: Arctic, international politics, politics (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)

The real 'surge' in Iraq: Rent-a-soldier In a privatized war, mercenaries outnumber soldiers -- and bring home cash for their bosses	Tom Philpott	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Everybody thought it was a big deal last spring when President Bush announced his "surge" of 20,000 troops in Iraq, which brings the total number to 160,000, four years after the invasion. Meanwhile, with little public or Congressional scrutiny, the president has been eagerly shelling out billions to maintain an even larger private armed force in Iraq. According to the journalist Jeremy Scahill -- without whose dogged reports in The Nation and on Democra ...
Topics: international politics, Iraq, politics (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)

Climate change and conflict: a 'myth'? Not really	David Roberts	14 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I get the point Idean Salehyan is trying to make in "The New Myth About Climate Change,' but -- the headline should tip you off -- the whole piece has been unnecessarily tarted up to generate controversy. It administers a stern beating to a series of strawmen. The "myth" in question is that global warming increases the probability of conflict, or as Salehyan puts it, "international and civil wars, a rise in the number of failed states, terroris ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

The World Bank and global warming An attempt at censorship by Wolfowitz	Sean Casten	14 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Sad, but perhaps not surprising. 'Wolfowitz attempted to censor World Bank report on global warming,' from Greenwire ($ub req'd): Former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz attempted to shift the organization's focus away from climate change during his tenure, according to documents made public through the Government Accountability Project yesterday. Wolfowitz's behavior is indicative of a political climate at the bank that was not receptive to discussing the thre ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

World Government Blvd. Turns out that NAFTA superhighway is superfictitious	David Roberts	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Last year I caught wind of concern on the far right about a "NAFTA Superhighway," an (alleged) gargantuan new road, four football fields wide, that would plow straight up through the country from the Mexican border, through Texas, through Minnesota, all the way up into Canada. Foreigners would own parts of it! The World Bank would settle disputes about its use! The last one out, take down the flag! Today in The Nation, the inimitable Chris Hayes takes a long ...
Topics: international politics, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Iraq and electricity again Micropower is smarter military strategy	David Roberts	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This post from Tom Grant at his excellent blog Arms & Influence reinforces the point I (channeling Amory Lovins) made in this post, namely: The centralized power grid in Iraq is intrinsically vulnerable to terrorist attack, thereby crippling our efforts to create some measure of security and civil society. Our determination to rebuild it, rather than assisting the development of a decentralized micropower grid, is driven by corporatism rather than clear-eyed stra ...
Topics: electricity grid, international politics, Iraq, politics (all these topics)

Irony alert Honk if you think I'm a giant asshole	Kate Sheppard	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
New specialty license plate option being offered in Oklahoma: 'For Sooners looking to show their terror-fighting pride while tearing up the asphalt,' writes one USA Today blogger. (h/t: TP)
Topics: cars, international politics, Oklahoma, politics (all these topics)

Well Oil Be Damned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pursues energy treaties in South America		08 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Well Oil Be Damned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pursues energy treaties in South America Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is on a four-nation swing through South America this week, using his country's oil riches to win friends and influence people. Yesterday, Chavez signed an "energy security treaty" with Nestor Kirchner, the president of Argentina; he will continue o ...
Topics: Argentina, energy, international politics, natural gas, news, Venezuela (all these topics)

Biofuels fueling conflict The need for good research	Geoff Dabelko	07 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The rush to put biofuels in our gas tanks has given people analyzing natural resources and conflict some work to do. How are European and American policy mandates to dramatically increase the use of biofuels affecting the places that grow biofuel inputs? It seems fair to say that little consideration has been given to the potential conflict and equity impacts of this surge in demand for palm oil, sugarcane, and corn. After President Bush's 2007 State of the Union ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, Indonesia, international politics, politics (all these topics)

YearlyKos: My message to the netroots Listen up	David Roberts	06 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I thought, as a final post on Yearly Kos (about which I fear my posts are woefully inadequate -- it really was a fascinating sociopolitical event, worthy of better analysis than I'm able to give it -- read Ezra Klein's wrap-up), I'd recap in somewhat more elaborate terms what I said at my global warming panel. These are points that will be familiar to Grist readers, but perhaps it's worth bringing them together. A note: these were explicitly conceived as messages to th ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

We Could've Sworn Someone Was Already Working On That Bush confirms plans for U.S.-hosted climate summit		06 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
We Could've Sworn Someone Was Already Working On That Bush confirms plans for U.S.-hosted climate summit Late last week, President Bush solidified plans for an international climate summit in September. The meeting, to be hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will convene 12 to 15 industrial and developing countries, including India and China, to discuss long-term climate goals. ...
Topics: climate, international politics, news, United Nations, White House (all these topics)

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