Posts Tagged ‘Global Warming’
Big Picture on Climate Change
One thing that’s daunting about working on Climate Change is the multitude of factors which you need to consider. Crafting and sustaining legislation to address Climate Change will take place of most if this century and actually stabilizing the world’s carbon trajectory involves coordinating the entire global economy. So when you talk about the big [...]
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Tags: Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
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 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
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
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
China and Climate Change
For some more discussion on China here’s Dave Roberts at Gristmill discussing Climate Change and China
In the debate over climate and sustainable development, people often talk about China as though it is some sort of rapacious automaton, blindly dedicated to growing its economy no matter the cost. But while I’ve never been to China, [...]
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Tags: China, Global Warming
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
Here is a ‘joke’ told by Mr. Heartbeat away from being the President
“Speaking of Vice President [Al] Gore, I’m sorry to relate that he’s a little bit sore at me. He’s convinced that, on global warming, I just don’t get it. But lately with every passing day, the evidence has been catching my attention. [...]
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Tags: Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Global Warming, Global warming jokes
China and Global Warming
I saw this discussion on China’s carbon reduction policy.
Basically the post cautions people to ’slow down’ with saying the Chinese are onboard with carbon controls. It’s very good run down and had a lot of interesting links to that illuminate the situation. I think the basic point other authors had been trying to make is [...]
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Tags: Carbon emissions, China, Global Warming, Robert Putnam
It had been a few days since anyone columnist/online writer of prominence had really pissed me off. I was starting to get worried when in steps Steven E. Landsburg. Writing in Slate he joins discussion about Al Gore winning the Nobel Prize. Landsburg like all other members of the press is convinced that he is [...]
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Tags: Al Gore, Global Warming, Slate, Steven E. Landsburg
So I’ve been thinking a lot about big picture political economy questions. I think I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of the national discourse is driven by larger trends that are rarely mentioned in the context the particular stories they drive.
I think there are three primary trends going on in America and the [...]
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Tags: BRICs, Ezra Klein, Global Warming, Political Economy, Social Security
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