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Less than a week after releasing its response to the April 2007 Supreme Court ruling that the EPA should take action to assess the risk of greenhouse gas emissions and regulate those emissions unless there is a good scientific reason for not doing so, the EPA issued a report entitled Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems.
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Carbon trading is annoying. Company X might happily announce that they’ve purchased carbon credits on an exchange to wipe out their carbon footprint, but the people trading the credits perform their duties only through information that has little or nothing to do with the factors directly impacting carbon emissions.Continue Reading Melting Ice – An Indicator For Carbon Markets
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Nothing brings out a religious fervor in America than rising gas prices.
It seems the sudden surge in the cost of a barrel of oil and the attendant rise in gas prices has Americans, as blogger Charlotte Weybright says, squealing like “stuck pigs”.
Continue Reading Where Would Jesus Drill? (Not in ANWR)
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In one breathtaking stroke of close-minded prejudicial rhetoric and disinformation, Bret Stephens, writing in the Wall Street Journal, was able to lump any and all concerned about climate change as anti-capitalist, hysterical, and sick.
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Not many people have heard of the Climate Extremes Index, but it was first introduced back in 1996 with the goal of
…summarizing and presenting a complex set of multivariate and multi-dimensional climate changes in the United States so that the results could be easily understood and used in policy decisions made by nonspecialists in the field.”
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The following is a guest post by Jen Boynton:
So, you’ve decided to take some responsibility for your carbon footprint and buy some carbon offsets to account for all your unavoidable driving and flying emissions. Congratulations on taking some responsibility for the massive situation we call “the climate crisis” Now you are wondering, which retailers are the most reliable? And how do you tell? It’s a complicated world out there, but I hope to make things a bit easier for you by recommending a few sellers and projects that are better than most and telling you why.
Continue Reading Window Shopping for Carbon Offsets
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The drive to achieve low carbon status is often believed to best be possible on a small scale, but what if an entire country sets out to achieve this? What exactly is a zero, or low carbon society and how would it operate? Could a developing country do it? A peer reviewed study by scientists from nine countries organized by the governments of Japan and the UK has come up with a definition.
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Global warming related litigation is bound to be big. But the wait is for that one landmark case that will confirm this. Last September´s State of California´s unsuccessful attempt to get six car companies to produce less polluting cars taught us that patience is the name of the game. Regulations are simply not there yet, so the real fireworks -cases involving breaking the rules- are bound to happen in the future. But a community of Alaskan Eskimos suing 23 oil and energy companies might speed things up.
Continue Reading Global Warming Related Litigation – Waiting For The Landmark Case
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The cloture motion voted on yesterday in the Senate would have moved the Climate Security Act forward, thwarting the Republican filibuster and allowing for more substantial debate on the proposed cap and trade legislation.
Continue Reading Climate Security Act Cloture Motion: How Did Your Senator Vote?
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The video here is of the full 35–minute press conference Barbara Boxer, chairman of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, at the start of the floor debate over the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Security Act.
Continue Reading The Climate Change Security Act is Debated in Congress – For Your Viewing Pleasure
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