Monthly Archives: May 2008
United States: Cost drives Senate climate debate
Associated Press: From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. Legislation set for Senate debate Monday would require a reduction in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, refineries, factories and transportation. [...]
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Trouble with Congress’ Green Gambit
Time Magazine: It’s a truism in politics: support for environmental causes tends to be broad, but shallow. Broad, because most voters support political action to protect the Earth, and not even the most conservative of politicians want to be seen as standing against it. Shallow, because few Americans really allow environmental issues to dictate their [...]
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Senate taking up key climate-change bill
San Francisco Chronicle: The Senate will decide this week whether to follow in California’s footsteps and pass legislation requiring cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change. Lawmakers are to vote Monday to begin debate on a bill that could reshape the U.S. economy by requiring industry to pay to emit carbon [...]
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Rising Costs End Quest for Cleaner Coal Power in US
New York Times: For years, scientists have had a straightforward idea for taming global warming. They want to take the carbon dioxide that spews from coal-burning power plants and pump it back into the ground. Support for the idea is widespread in the United States – which vies with China as the world’s [...]
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Economic cost drives Senate climate debate
Associated Press: The possible economic cost of confronting global warming – from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline – is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. The Senate will begin considering legislation Monday that would mandate a reduction in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, [...]
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Climate-change bill: how it works and key players involved
San Francisco Chronicle: — Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. – She chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and sees this bill as her chance to leave a lasting legacy. She’ll have a tough task fighting off "poison pill" amendments aimed at killing the bill. — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. – The presumptive [...]
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Climate-change trigger? Degrading Arctic ice may release planet-warming methane
Associated Press: Global warming could release long-dormant stores of methane gas trapped beneath the Arctic permafrost – causing an abrupt and catastrophic climate change like one that occurred 635 million years ago that ended the last great ice age, University of California-Riverside researchers have determined. Back then, the sheets of ice that covered Earth [...]
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‘Scrubber’ may clean air of CO2 emissions
Scotsman: FOR those fearing the destruction of the earth through climate change, there is for once some good news: scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough towards developing a machine that can ’suck’ carbon dioxide from the air. If successful, the device will alleviate the environmental damage caused by billions of tonnes of [...]
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United Kingdom: Greener power to the people: the real energy alternative?
Independent: Ministers could avoid building nuclear reactors by encouraging families to fit solar panels and other renewable energy equipment to their homes, a startling official report concludes. The government-backed report, to be published tomorrow, says that, with changed policies, the number of British homes producing their own clean energy could multiply to one million [...]
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Thoughts on a Thought Experiment
As I indicated in the original post – Coping with Gas at $100 a Gallon – here are some of the comments on my thought experiment on $100 gasoline. Comments were varied, ranging from things like “thought-provoking”, “great question”, “a good exercise”, and “interesting” – to “absurd”, “silly”, and finally my personal favorite (from the [...]
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Farewell, Fair Weather
New York Times: We are now firmly ensconced in the Age of Extreme Weather. According to the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, there have been more than four times as many weather-related disasters in the last 30 years than in the previous 75 years. The United States has experienced more [...]
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Utah’s water forecast: Thirsty times are a-brewin’
Salt Lake Tribune: Maj. John Wesley Powell began his exploration of the Colorado River and Utah in 1869, and 10 years later his "Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, With a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah" cut straight to a fundamental truth. The West [...]
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UN conference scraps ‘ocean fertilization’
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Nearly 200 countries agreed yesterday to a moratorium on projects to fight climate change by adding nutrients to the seas to spur growth of carbon-absorbing algae. The surprise deal followed 12 days of haggling at the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity conference where Australia, Brazil and China opposed until the [...]
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India holding some major cards in the carbon trade game