Our combined energy and climate challenges and opportunities are incredibly complex and interrelated issues. Throw in other resource challenges, economic challenges, and a myriad of other factors and, well, the complexity can overwhelm any and all. Clarity of targets matter. Ever more experts are endorsing the call to create a path to return the atmospheric […]
Entries Tagged as 'environmental'
Five Percent a Year is all we ask …
May 5th, 2010 · 8 Comments
Tags: carbon dioxide · climate legislation · Energy · environmental
What’s in a name?
May 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments
No matter the word put against it, humanity is driving change in climate and other aspects of our living space. For decades, scientists, scholars, and public opinion pollsters have sought to place a name against the phenomena. Global Warming … Climate Change … Global Change … Climate Chaos; Climate Disruption … Climate Catastrophe … Climate […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming
Drill, Baby, Drill: Drill the bottomless well
May 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Paul Krugman’s Drilling, Disaster, Denial is both a great OPED piece to see in the traditional media and, well, a troubling read. Great because of its focus on how one of environmentalism greatest problems might, in fact, have been its successes which could have helped lead to complacency in the public, undermining efforts to build […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · journalism
Pre-empting Our Future: Why we MUST Defeat Kerry-(Graham)-Lieberman
April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment
While remaining uncertain as to just how bad it is, the concerns that KGL will cross the line from mediocrity to counterproductive are increasing. Here is a guest post from Craig Altemose laying out how he sees that line having already passed. For the past year and a half or so, I have been largely […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate legislation · environmental · government energy policy
CAP’s American Fuel: Contaminated on so many levels
April 27th, 2010 · 14 Comments
Two weeks ago, the Center for American Progress issued American Fuel: Developing Natural Gas for Heavy Vehicles. This misleading and error-prone report strongly supports misguided policy concepts to subsidize heavily transitioning American transportation from one fossil fuel (oil) to a slightly lower polluting alternative (natural gas). Even though political momentum exists behind this concept, it […]
Tags: bus · climate change · Energy · environmental · fuel economy · gasoline · Global Warming · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · pollution · t boone pickens · the pickens plan
Partying with Green Tea?
April 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tom Friedman has set out a leading position in the media landscape on the need for Green to be the new Red, White, and Blue. He has made articulate — and forceful — arguments underlying the basic national security (and economic) reasons for moving forward with an aggressive clean energy program across the United States. […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming
“Hump smarter … save the snail darter”
April 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on “Hump smarter … save the snail darter”
The pushing to the Overton Window to the right, ever to the right, over the past few decades have made many topics seemingly near taboo in ‘polite company’. Zero Population Growth seemingly was part of the common lexicon decades ago, with serious concern about The Population Bomb part of the general cultural conversation space. As […]
Tags: environmental
In the “Race to the Top”, are we missing the fastest path?
April 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments
Rewarding those who come up with innovative approaches, who prove that they have winning teams, who can show demonstrated success is a thematic within the Obama Administration. Of course, this is not ‘abandon those who fail’ and thus the more appropriate summary might be: “Reward those who show success, help those who struggle reform toward […]
Tags: analysis · Energy · environmental · government energy policy
VP Biden’s excellent Earth Day announcement is perhaps 1% of what we need …
April 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment
The day before the 40th Earth Day, VP Joe Biden kicked off a series of White House actions and announcements with an excellent initiative: selection of 25 communities for up to $452 million in Recovery Act funding to “ramp-up” energy efficiency building retrofits. Under the Department of Energy’s Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative, communities, governments, private sector […]
Tags: building green · Congress · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · financial policy · global warming deniers · government energy policy · Obama Administration · politics · President Barack Obama
Energy Bookshelf: The Lomborg Deception … leads to a question: “Does the Washington Post have any honor left?”
April 21st, 2010 · 8 Comments
At a recent conference, a scientist made a comment during his presentation about how we need to understand trade-offs in investments, advocating action on climate change but noting that we need to understand opportunity costs. In doing this, he referenced Bjorn Lomborg (with a somewhat condescending tone). In my bag, as he spoke, Howard Friel’s […]
Tags: bjorn lomborg · climate change · climate delayers · Energy · energy bookshelf · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · politics · Washington Post