Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, UK, USA on Jul 9th, 2009
It appears that the G8 pledge to do everything possible to keep global warming below 2°C by 2050 isn’t worth the paper it was written on. Less than 24 hours after leaders of the world’s largest economies were heralding a breakthrough in climate agreements, the bad boys of international climate negotiations — Canada and Russia [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, USA on Jul 1st, 2009
A vast swath of the coastal lands around New Orleans will be underwater in 90 years because of rising sea levels due to climate change, according to a study published this week in Nature Geoscience. The new report suggests that up to 13,500 square kilometers — an area the size of Connecticut — could be [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Science, Greenwashing, USA on Jun 29th, 2009
Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman, in fine form.
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics, USA on Jun 16th, 2009
President Obama’s top science advisors have created a comprehensive climate change report which details the expected impact of global warming on the US, and urgently recommends decisive action. The report, by the Global Climate Research Program, is being unveiled by Dr. John Holdren, who heads the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and NOAA’s Dr. [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Energy Efficiency, Politics, USA on May 25th, 2009
A new report from a dozen retired US military leaders warns that climate change poses significant risks to its national security. Dependence on fossil fuels and the vulnerable energy grid threaten the country, according to Powering America’s Defense: Energy and the Risks to National Securityfrom the Military Advisory Board (MAB) of the Center for Naval [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Politics, USA on May 20th, 2009
In introducing tough new CAFE measures the Obama administration is hoping to kill three birds with one stone: Resolve outstanding litigation by the Big Three automakers; enhance the administration’s international credibility in the fight to slow climate change; and offer struggling US automakers a chance at salvation by embracing cutting edge technologies. And it appears [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, USA on May 16th, 2009
US cap-and-trade legislation will have widespread ramifications, not only for Americans, but for America’s largest trading partner, too.** Canada’s Conservative government has placed all its financial eggs in one basket in making the Alberta tar sands the center of the country’s economic policy.* Unfortunately for Canada, with depressed prices for oil, tar sands companies are [...]
Posted in Astroturfing, Greenwashing, Politics, USA on May 14th, 2009
Oil and coal companies — the most vocal opponents of US cap-and-trade climate legislation — have spent more than $76 million over the last four months on public relations and mass advertising trying to to defeat the climate bill now before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. When you combine that incredible sum with money [...]
Posted in Double Dumb Ass Award, Old King Coal, Politics, USA on May 5th, 2009
Just six days into office, Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson has signed an agreement that will let Sunflower Electric Power Corp build one 895-MW coal-fired power plant near Holcomb. The company had originally wanted to build two 700-MW coal plants, but this compromise will overcome a two-year stalemate that saw former governor Kathleen Sibelius veto the [...]
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, USA on May 2nd, 2009
Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman writing in The New York Times about why a cap-and–trade policy is exactly what we need in the recession. An Affordable Salvation By Paul Krugman The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation’s capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a [...]