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Administration Buries Report on Climate Change Impacts on Gulf Transport; Muzzles Scientists
ClimateScienceWatch
The Transportation Department quietly released a report March 12 listing serious impacts climate change could have on Gulf Coast transportation and energy infrastructure. The report bolsters findings from two other studies released recently. But reporters are not being allowed to talk to the scientists who wrote it. Rather, they are being sent to a Republican political appointee.
(13 March 2008)
Related from the Union of Concerned Scientists: Scientists urge protection from political interference
Scholar: US Should Help China Reduce Emissions (video)
Kelly Sims Gallagher via Energy Policy TV
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology
Innovation Policy, Belfer Center, and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard
University Kennedy School
The National Academies Summit on America’s Energy Future, which will inform the upcoming study “America’s Energy Future: Technology, Opportunities, Risks, and Tradeoffs.” China’s demand for fuel and energy technologies will likely continue to rise and the nation also
faces energy challenges, including difficulty in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
(13 March 2008)
US told to go green on carbon emissions or lose EU flights
Dan Milmo, Guardian
US airlines must pay for their carbon dioxide emissions or face a curb on flights to the European Union, the EU transport commissioner warned yesterday.
The green ultimatum was issued by Jacques Barrot as the transatlantic airline market undergoes its biggest shakeup in 30 years when limits on flights between the EU and US are lifted this month. Barrot said negotiations on a second phase for the treaty will include a demand that US carriers join the EU emissions trading scheme or an equivalent system in the US.
He added that requests by Washington for data on passengers overflying the US are disproportionate and will not be accepted by the EU, which fears that security measures across the Atlantic are becoming too draconian.
However, the environmental dispute with the US, which is refusing to let airlines join a carbon trading scheme, is likely to escalate following Barrot’s comments on “open skies” negotiations.
(15 March 2008)
