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- Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?
- There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of Congressional action, it is highly unlikely President...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Copenhagen may not see any real agreement on greenhouse gases
- That's the conclusion of Britain's lead environmental official. He thinks the barriers to reaching agreement on how to pay for reduction of emissions is too high a hurdle to overcome in less than fifty days. The British Prime Minister already tried scolding fellow heads of state. That got...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Has Chamber become a Chamber of Horrors for its members?
- There's an essay coming out in one of those MSM pubs that wll stir even more anger and argument over the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's political stance via-a-vis federal action or inaction on global warming. I've blogged about this before, most recently when Apple left the Chamber over its...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Aerosols may not be so helpful
- New research indicates atmospheric aerosols are not going to be a big help in combatting greenhouse gases. Research in Norway says the aerosols are likely to counter only about 10% of the greenhouse gas effects in our atmosphere. Earlier it had been hoped aerosols could reverse up to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Greenpeace: running may be good for you, hurting the Earth
- Luxury product, big American retailers, greedy developing national leaders, resource exploitation. You can almost write the script. This time it's not soybeans or mahogany or mining. It's leather for running shoes from Nike, Adidas and their ilk. Greenpeace says consumers buying leather shoes from major manufacturers...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- U.S. v. E.U. on global warming...still
- Some hail the current version of the energy security act as a major step forward in American policy on global warming. It's not going to get an upbeat greeting in Europe, one of the world's largest economies. The proposed American law has only passed one House committee so far,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Pols fighting over greenhouse gas, emit hot air
- The battle over greenhouse gases will create its own special form of air pollution: charges and counter-charges on TV, on blogs, bloviation extraordinaire whenever some politician sense a chance to get campaign money or a couple votes. Meanwhile the issue will remain, and any action taken by the U.S....
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Fat people an environmental issue now? How about flatulence?
- On a planet with insufficient resources that would be Earth for us all live like hedge-fund traders, it follows that the HAVES will not be popular with the HAVE-NOTS. And that may even go for human obesity. A medical journal has just published research showing that...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Calling all carbon capture and recycling companies
- A whole spate of greentech companies just got the happiest news of their brief existence. Any company that recycles CO2, like Serious Materials. Any firm working various ways of feeding CO2 to algae, like Origin Oil. Anybody part of the various schemes for reducing or sequestering CO2...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Is the U.S. unable to deal with global warming?
- The head of the International Panel appointed by the U.N.to deal with climate change is not optimistic about the United States' ability to respond to global warming. He told a British paper President Obama would face a "revolution" if he tries to bring the U.S. in line with greenhouse...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Co-operative carbon trading with Obama's US?
- Those wild-eyed optimists over in Europe actually think they might come up with a scheme that would have the U.S.and E.U. co-operating in trying to curtail CO2 emissions. Clearly this is an Obama-dependent idea. The E.U. implemented its own carbon-trading program in 2005 and now...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Energy and the Earth's Future
- President-elect Obama may intend to keep the same Secretary of Defense, but he sure is changing things at the Department of Energy. Dick Cheney must be rolling over in his political grave. Apparently Obama's pick to be the next Energy Secretary could be a bona fide scientist, Dr....
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- The next generation will deal with global warming, we promise
- That's the bottom line out of the G8 Summit in Japan where the world's eight biggest economies are meeting. They have pledged to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By then all the current leaders and this humble scrivener will be long gone. Our children will probably...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Global warming: a fish story, and your health
- Salmon are not healthy in warm water. As the rivers of Alaska get warmer, the salmon there get sicker. Just one more reason food prices are rising, a larger proportion of the salmon caught in Alaska are being thrown to the dogs. In the lower...
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- Cautionary tale: carbon trading and carping loggers
- In New Zealand an official carbon-trading scheme is not running smoothly. It's perhaps a cautonary tale for other countries or regions looking at carbon-trading as a way to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. New Zealand's a signator to the Kyoto Protocol which led that nationto try carbon-trading...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Another morning hangover for ethanolics
- This time a major U.S. newspaper editorializes against the American subsidies for ethanol. Their conclusion: "This does not mean that Congress should give up on biofuels as an important part of the effort to reduce the countryĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s dependency on imported oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What it does...
- Blog posts 2008-05-10
- Researcher: forgot those solar panels, get back into the lab
- A new study from a UC Berkeley researcher is good news for VCs, Silicon Valley and other centers of green tech innovation. It's equally glum news for the current pruveyors of solar panels. Current solar panel technology is not worth installing, it's a waste of money according to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Calculate what you are adding to greenhouse emissions
- There's a new online calculator for businesses. Let's you calculate greenhouse gas equivalencies. For example, if you an estimate of the amount of gasoline, natural gas or electricity your business consumers, the calculator will give you the greenhouse gas emissions that adds to the atmosphere. ...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Bali Finale: U.S. regime to play out the clock
- The talk has ended, and thousands of delegates are jetting home, to leave large jet-fuming carbon footprints across the earth's atmopshere. And what have they left in their contrails? Everything from an historic agreement to a sad compromise, depending on who's doing the analysis. By...
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Climate change talks: EU says U.S. is the problem now
- The European Union says it's the U.S. that's stalling chances for U.N. members to get moving on climate change. Here's how a left-wing British paper sees it. One Australian account sees it this way: "The Bali conference is coming to a close, and pressure is building...
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
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