Climate policy – Dec 2
EPA staffers go to Hill over global warming
China sees tackling climate change as urgent-Stern
4 U.S. West states adopt greenhouse gas accord
Energy Policy
Coal – Dec 2
Australia: King coal under siege
Coal or happiness: you can’t have both
Can we lock greenhouse gases away in rocks?
The Southern Appalachians – victims of coal
Reducing DoD fossil-fuel dependence
Conclusions of the report: “Barring unforeseen circumstances, availability concerns are not a decision driver in the reduction of DoD fossil-fuel use at present. However, the need to improve logistics requirements and military capabilities, and, secondarily, the need to reduce fuel costs, as well as providing a prudent hedge against a foggy future, especially in the Middle East and South America, argue for a reduction in fuel use, in general.”
Climate policy – Nov 30
Interview: NYT science reporter Andy Revkin
Canada’s commitment to failure
Global warming goes to court
Teachers Association reject 50,000 free copies of “An Inconvenient Truth”
You can’t conduct an orchestra with an invisible hand: The problem with carbon taxes
A strategy based mainly on price increases will work ineffectively, if at all.
Historically, large-scale infrastructure changes take place only via hands-on government involvement — involvement that not only subsidizes technology but helps shape its deployment.
Climate policy – Nov 28
Science à la Joe Camel
Global warming goes to court
Landmark climate change ruling in Australia
Carmakers say California’s greenhouse rules would endanger SUVs
Latin America – Nov 28
Correa ‘wins Ecuador’s election’
Venezuela’s oil-based economy
Mexico: An energy quagmire awaits president-elect
Business, economics and climate
Financial Times: Averting climate change
The Stern Review: critical notes on its abatement optimism
Energy firms accept regulation as inevitable
Emission credit market heats up
Climate policy – Nov 27
Self-preservation forcing wild species, businesses, planning officials to act
World’s largest science teacher’s organization to ignore climate change education?
Top court to hear emissions argument
Canada Liberals propose sweeping ‘green’ changes
The peak oil crisis: picking the peak
It is not much of leap to believe that CERA is coming under heat from those who recognize that a bad call on peak oil will be devastating. This CERA report, which is obviously an attempt to defend their position, may be a sign that the message of peak oil may just be getting through to the corporate world.
Peak oil and U.S. cities
Progress report on the dozen or so U.S. cities that have passed peak oil resolutions or that are on track to do so.
Kunstler on the CERA report
CERA’s stunningly disingenuous report flies in the face of everything that is known about the current world oil situation.
