Two Views of Greenhouse Gases
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe same data yields two very different pictures of what's important. Behold: two very different ways of looking at U.S. climate-warming emissions, thanks to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (pdf presentation here). First, the geeky view, ...
Inside WCI: Delay
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffWhy wait and why not to. by Eric de Place This is the sixth in a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate ...
Can Cattle Save Us From Global Warming?
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffA small band of activists and scientists believe that farming done the right way can remove carbon from the atmosphere. by Jay Walljasper On an unseasonably warm and sunny winter morning—the kind that lulls you into thinking global ...
Inside WCI: Linking
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffHow different cap and trade programs can all get along. by Eric de Place This is the fourth in a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate Initiative ...
Yet Another Greenhouse Gas
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffShould we add one more gas to the Kyoto list? Time to head back into my pillow fort: Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) can be called the missing greenhouse gas: It is a synthetic chemical produced in industrial quantities; ...
U.S. Environmentalists Finally Have a Leader
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Ben Block and Christopher Flavin On Thursday, politician-turned-activist Al Gore called for the United States to rely 100 percent on zero-carbon sources of electricity by 2018. Regardless of the logistical practicality of the goal or of ...
Breaking the Climate Deadlock, the G8’s 50 by 50 Plan and Copenhagen
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe argument could be made that COP 15 -- the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen at the end of next year -- may well be the most important diplomatic meeting of the century. That's ...
Cowpooling and Super-Spikes, New Words Help Define Our World
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffTo keep apace with our quickly changing world, we are constantly looking for ways to describe how change is happening and how we feel about it. By creating new words, like tipping points, NIMBYs ...
350 ppm, the Video
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffA catchy little video about the need to stabilize atmospheric CO2 at 350 ppm: Help us change the world - DONATE NOW! (Posted by Alex Steffen in Climate Change at 8:26 AM)
Californians are Climate Trendsetters
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Anna Fahey I've said it before; I'll say it again: Strong bi-partisan leadership in California puts state residents ahead of the public opinion curve when it comes to climate policy. It makes you wonder what ...
Greenhouse Gases: Where Do They Come From?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe World Resources Institute has a geekalicious image (see page 15 of this pdf) that shows how human activities contribute to global warming. Click on the image below to get a legible, full-sized version. The most ...
Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby James Hansen My presentation today is exactly 20 years after my June 23, 1988, testimony to Congress, which alerted the public that global warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but ...
Walking: Still Better Than Driving
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffWalking is 12 times better for the climate than driving. In case you missed it, there was a bit of a kerfuffle in the blogosphere a few months back, concerning the climate impacts ...
Why Your “Skeptical” Comment on Climate Change Got Deleted
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffClimate "skepticism" is not a morally defensible position. The debate is over, and it's been over for quite some time, especially on this blog. We will delete comments which deny the absolutely overwhelming scientific consensus on climate ...
Upward from the Climate Security Act: Stronger. Simpler. Fairer.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby KC Golden As thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped through the nation’s capital last week, the U.S. Senate tied itself in a procedural knot, preventing a vote on the substance of the Climate Security Act (CSA) – ...
Cows aren’t part of a climate-healthy diet, study says
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffMore and more consumers are trying to reduce the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. But it's not so easy to know what to do -- in part because of the bewildering array of ...
How Do We Intelligently Discuss Politicized Geoengineering
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffEver since I wrote about my support for a ban on geoengineering research, I've found myself more involved in a debate about geoengineering, climate science and politics than I anticipated being. Mostly this has meant a ...
U.K. Committee Supports Personal Carbon Trading
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffA House of Commons committee suggested last week that the U.K. Parliament create a personal carbon-trading scheme for all citizens of the United Kingdom. It was the strongest statement yet by any government in favor of ...
U.K. Committee Supports Personal Carbon Trading
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffA House of Commons committee suggested last week that the U.K. Parliament create a personal carbon-trading scheme for all citizens of the United Kingdom. It was the strongest statement yet by any government in favor of ...
Lighting an Efficient Future, Minus the Mercury
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffMore and more countries are banning incandescent light bulbs in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs. But options to recycle the mercury-laden alternatives are often scarce. A variety of European Union recycling regulations make ...