Energy Policy

Ethanol and biofuels

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Non-partisan Congressional think tank concludes: “…there are limits to the amount of biofuels that can be produced and questions about the net energy and environmental benefits they would provide. Further, rapid expansion of biofuel production may have many unintended and undesirable consequences for agricultural commodity costs, fossil energy use, and environmental degradation.”

Climate Policy – Mar 21

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Big Investors Urge U.S. To Slash CO2 Emissions

Ex-CIA chief says U.S. must act on climate

Aus. Industry Group urges moves on emissions

A Host of Plastic Daffodils… An Odd Manifestation of Climate Change Denial

Tornado ‘prophet’ case postponed in court

Climate Policy – Mar 19

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Courting air travel is unsustainable

Chinese Premier hedges on climate response

Canada’s Tories eliminate climate policy group

180 New Hampshire towns put climate on agenda

Gore gets 300k signatures on call for action
British Columbia aligns with California to create a green bloc along Pacific
Global opinion warming

Warmer, warmer

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I don’t think I can be the only person who finds in myself a strong degree of psychological resistance to the whole subject of climate change. I just don’t want to think about it. Part of the problem is one of scale. Global warming is as a subject so much more important than almost anything else that it is difficult to frame or discuss. [Excerpts]

Climate disasters: three obstacles to doing anything

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When there is such a clear disjunction between knowledge and action, there must be obstacles in the socio-political arena to explain this. In fact, there are three quite powerful obstacles to action: the interests of producers/ entrepreneurs, the interests of less wealthy nations, and the attitudes of you and me.

Comments to the National Petreoleum Council

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I see no plausible scenario in which a liquid fuels crisis arising within about 5 years can be averted on the supply side. This is too little time in which to compensate for declines by producing large quantities of liquids-from-coal or biofuels, if that is even possible. And that in turn means that demand-reduction strategies will be required in order to balance the available supply with requirements for transport fuels. The sooner such strategies are identified and implemented, the better the prognosis for societal adaptation.