Energy and Global Warming are complex, multifaceted, deep subjects. They are beyond the ability of any single person to totally master. And, a great challenge to those focused on them is seeking how to communicate, in a meaningful way, to those who don’t have the ability to dedicate huge chunks of time to learning about […]
Entries Tagged as 'cap and trade'
Core Principles in Face of Warming World
April 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on Core Principles in Face of Warming World
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · climate legislation · ed markey · Energy · environmental · environmental justice · Global Warming · government energy policy
Thinking CAP? Curse Jar? Let X decide …
February 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Thinking CAP? Curse Jar? Let X decide …
The other day, the Environmental Defense Action Fund opened voting for ‘the people’s choice’ as to the best 30-second video to explain how a Cap & Trade program to control carbon dioxide would help cut the nation’s dependence on oil. Putting aside questions as to Environmental Defense’s devotion to a CAP uber all, the best […]
Tags: advertising · cap and trade · carbon dioxide · carbon tax · climate change · Energy · Global Warming
Voting Withdrawal Blues? A carbon cap video fix
January 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment
With Obama in the White House and, for most of you, no election any time soon, are you feeling voting withdrawal. If so, the Environmental Defense Action Fund has a fix for your voting blues: a chance to vote for the best short video that best explains how capping greenhouse gas pollution will break America’s […]
Tags: cap and trade · emissions · Energy · environmental
Warming Summers …
November 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Larry Summers is now officially part of the senior Obama Administration team on economic issues. Let us be clear, energy and global warming are cross-cutting issues, so cross-cutting that stances on views on these issues should be examined against essentially all appointees. While Summers has the shadow of a controversial early 1990s World Bank memo […]
Tags: cap and trade · carbon tax · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy
Energy Smart Michael
September 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Amid skyrocketing oil, gasoline, coal, and electricity (coming to a neighborhood near you) prices, 2008 offers Americans quite serious and stark choices between knowledgeable, impassioned, and thoughtful candidates when it comes to finding paths toward a prosperous 21st century economy, on the one side, and Fossil-Fool candidates focused on tightening our shackles to the ever-more […]
Tags: cap and trade · Energy · politics
While you weren’t watching …
June 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on While you weren’t watching …
Much has happened … Last week, most American political eyes turned to questioning how Hillary Clinton would handle acknowledgment of not being the Democratic Party nominee … Last week, a few eyes were turned toward the Senate debate on the extremely weak Lieberman-Warner Climate (in)Security Act and the Republican obstructionism against even a discussion of […]
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · Global Warming
Making Climate Policy Economically Profitable
June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Reality deniers are hard at work, with $100s of millions supporting them, arguing that doing something about global warming would be disastrous for the economy. Let us be clear: THIS IS FALSE! Smart climate policy will, even within traditional economic definitions, pay off for the economy. But, in fact, there are a multitude of payoffs […]
Tags: analysis · business practice · cap and trade · climate change · conservation · electricity · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · environmental justice · Global Warming · Uncategorized
Truthiness into the inbox …
June 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments
It had seemed that ABEC had bit the dust, having been transformed into ACCCE. But, it seems that obituary might have been a bit too soon as my in-box just was filled with truthiness and deception from the astroturfing Americans for Balanced Energy Choices. Let’s take a brief look at this material from America’s coal […]
Tags: cap and trade · carbon dioxide · carbon tax · climate change · climate delayers · coal · Congress · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics · pollution · truthiness · Uncategorized
Boxer’s Radio Jab on Global Warming
June 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on Boxer’s Radio Jab on Global Warming
Saturday, Senator Barbara Boxer gave the Democratic Radio Address. She spoke about the urgent need for our nation to act on global warming before it’s too late. This talk has material that merits cheering and other parts that merit groans. Join me after the fold for an examination of why Senator Boxer merits some Cheers […]
Tags: analysis · cap and trade · carbon dioxide · Congress · emissions · Energy · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · lieberman-warner · Uncategorized
Introducing Sanity to Climate Legislation
May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Today, Congressman Ed Markey has announced that he will introduce the the Investing in Climate Action and Protection (iCAP) Act next week. Unlike the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Climate inSecurity Act (BLW CISA), the iCAP follows science calling for a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in covered sectors by 85 percent by 2050. It also is serious […]
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · Congress · ed markey · environmental · environmental justice · Global Warming · government energy policy · iCAP · lieberman-warner · politics · Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warm