Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
Back in the day I was interviewed by a Washington Post reporter at a mobilization for global justice (anti-IMF/World Bank) protest. The reporter asked 4 times if I was disappointed at the size of the protest. I answered:
“No. No. No. No.”
Obviously my quote didn’t make the paper, because it wasn’t what he wanted to [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Climate Progress, Global Warming, NY Times
National Energy Policy
There’s been a lot of talk regarding which environmental groups support and oppose Waxman-Markey. It’s easy to see why the current compromise bill is unpopular in some circles, the bill as written is far from ideal using most any criteria. At the same time the Waxman-Markey would launch a entire new trajectory on energy policy, [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
Here is Katharine Mieszkowski reporting for Salon.com on new climate change health impacts research:
Climate change is currently killing 300,000 people a year around the world, while seriously impacting the lives of hundreds of millions more, states a controversial new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. The report, “Human Impact Report: Climate Change — [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Global Humanitarian Forum, UN Human Impact Report, Waxman-Markey
One major aspect about climate change that has been missing from main stream media accounts is the history of global warming science and how policy makers have responded so far. The green house effect has been known since the mid 19th century, with the role of carbon dioxide and combustion going as far back as [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Waxman-Markey
Flake Carbon Tax
Via E-mail Optimo directs me to check out the Flake carbon tax bill. Here’s the pitch from Rep. Bob Inglis & Dr. Laffer :
CONSERVATIVES don’t support tax increases that are veiled as “cap and trade” schemes for pollution permits. But offer us a tax swap, and we could become the new administration’s best allies [...]
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Tags: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Jeff Flake, Waxman-Markey
Here is a Matthew Yglesias post from earlier this week discussing carbon auctions and the compromises being made to pass the cap and trade bill
But let me take some time out to express outrage about one aspect of the change that doesn’t really have a huge environmental impact, the decision to give away the carbon [...]
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Tags: Carbon Auctions, Climate Change, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
Organize Around This Chart
The Obama administration prepares people for more of the dread pragmatism on climate change:
In one of his first interviews since being confirmed March 20 as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Holdren said a group of Cabinet-level officials is trying to establish a set of principles to guide the climate [...]
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Tags: Carbon emissions, Carbon emissions auctions, Climate Change, Global Warming, Obama Energy Policy
It’s really quite disheartening to read something like this:
Prospects for using the Congress’s budget process to pass cap-and-trade legislation were extinguished on Wednesday night as the Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a measure to bar that option.
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), prohibits the “use of reconciliation in the Senate for climate [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Energy Policy, filibuster, Global Warming, Senate, Waxman-Markey
Climate Change Legislation
There has been a lot of chewing over the Waxman-Markey Climate Change bill, and most of it is positive. Depending on how you read it either “punts” or just leaves out the issue of auctioning carbon permits. This doesn’t strike me as the kind of thing that’s “OK”.
No carbon permits means nothing short of [...]
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Tags: Carbon emissions, Climate Change, Energy Policy, Waxman-Markey
Dear Future Generations:
Sorry to report that our efforts to secure a plentiful future free global warming for you have come to end. Yes we were all quite hopeful that Barack Obama’s election would lead to a future where clean energy was abundant, but today we got news that our efforts have lead to nothing short [...]
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Tags: Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Damn You Gandhi!, Michelle Bachmann
I had wanted to comment on the “let us filibuster climate change letter” that 8 Democrats signed, but I effectively lost my internet connection all weekend. Here’s TPMDC:
When President Obama submitted a budget that predicted passage of a revenue-raising climate change bill, hopes rose that Congress could successfully rein in carbon emissions this year.
But a [...]
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Tags: Budget Reconciliation, Climate Change, filibuster, Global Warming, Senate
Energy Policy Growing Up
I wanted to highlight and expound on some really solid points about energy policy made by Ryan Avent on Ezra Klein’s blog today
First, it’s a shame that Obama continues to rail against dependency on foreign oil. For one thing, it’s not like domestic oil is all that much cleaner. For another, oil is a globally [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Energy Policy, Foreign Oil, Oil, Oil Dependency, Ryan Avent
David Roberts put this video up at Gristmill under the title “Newt Gringrich is an idiot”.
Actually I think the intellectual agility involved in plan is fairly clever. In the video Newt Gringrich says he would favor tax credits for ‘carbon avoidance’, as opposed to a carbon tax. He credits this distinction [...]
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Tags: Carbon Taxes, Climate Change, Energy, Energy Policy, Newt Gingrich
Melting Ice Caps
Apparently the world’s getting hotter. Who knew?
Arctic sea ice could break apart completely at the North Pole this year, allowing ships to sail over the normally frozen top of the world.
The potential landmark thaw – the first time in human history the pole would be ice-free – is a stark sign of global warming, according [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Global Warming, Ice Cap, North Pole
Here’s a post about Jim Webb on the Raising Kaine blog written by TheGreenMiles
I’ve heard from sources that Sen. Webb is “leaning against” supporting the Climate Security Act. Hard as it is for me to believe, I’m told there’s a real chance Sen. Webb could vote against Democratic leadership and with Sen. James “Global [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Climate Security Act, Global Warming, Jim Webb, Politics, TheGreenMiles, Vice President
This is from Roll Call on June 2.
Global Warming to Take Senate Hot Seat
The Senate will be consumed next week by the heated debate on global warming, but it’s unclear which party will end up looking like a spoiler.
The chamber is expected to move Monday night to a relatively noncontroversial vote on a motion to [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Fillibusters, Global Warming, John Warner, Warner-Lieberman Act
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