Dr. James Hansen from NASA’s GISS. Exactly 20 years to the date that Dr. James Hansen first testified to Congress, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) updated the House Select Committee on Energy Independence on the…
The United Nations held a summit on climate change Monday with 80 national leaders. Among the notable Americans in attendance were Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and former Vice President Al Gore. Here are some…
The UN has invited over 1000 delegates from more than 150 countries to Vienna, Austria this week to attend a series of meetings on global warming. According to the Toronto Star article, the main focus of the discussions is on…
A new, on-line only Newsweek article talks about a different way to cut greenhouse emissions. Rather than imposing a gas tax or other form of carbon tax where the revenue reverts to the government - and they use it for…
An interesting editorial appeared in the Sacramento Bee last Friday. It discusses the great divide in the United States over global warming policy, not the divide between Republicans and Democrats, but the divide between representatives of states dependent on carbon…
Tomorrow marks the start of the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. The Group of Eight consists of Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Canada, Italy and Japan. Representatives from other parts of the developing world will also…
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U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 1.3% - 78 million metric tons - last year, despite a 3.3% growth in the economy. The Bush administration hailed the news as proof that its policies of regulations, public-private partnerships, incentives and economic…
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California has special standing under the Clean Air Act, it is allowed to enact its own rules as long as it receives permission from the EPA. Other states are then free to choose if they will follow federal or California…
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Numerical targets for greenhouse gas emissions are unlikely at next month’s G8 meeting in Germany next month, according to Britain’s foreign minister. The Group of Eight wealthy nations include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United…
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I wrote a little about economics last week, and usually that’s not a subject I would come back to so quickly, but I found a very interesting article originally from the Chicago Tribune that I thought was well worth linking….
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