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 […]
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Introducing Sanity to Climate Legislation
May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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
BLW: Disastrous Legislation or simply Disastrous Politics?
May 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on BLW: Disastrous Legislation or simply Disastrous Politics?
With each read, with each detailed understood, the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Climate InSecurity Act (BLW CiSA) seems ever more questionable on climate policy terms and, in addition, on basic politics. Last fall, Friends of the Earth (FOE) launched their Fix It or Ditch It campaign, seeking to develop momentum for the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act to be transformed […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · lieberman-warner · politics · pollution
Future Scenarios …
May 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Future Scenarios …
Just up today is an extremely well done, informative, and rather fear-provoking website: Future Scenarios. Done by David Holmgrem, a leading thinker on Permaculture, this site “maps the cultural implications of peak oil and climate change”.
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental
Don’t sign a petition …
May 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
As written about in The Shocking Analysis of Lie-berman-Warner, Environmental Defense Fund has a great little gag site (Get America Working) that provides a tool for learning of false industry statements on Global Warming legislation with counters from EDF. The site also links to a petition that I recommend readers NOT sign. Sadly, while EDF’s […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics
The Shocking Analysis of Lie-berman-Warner
May 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Shocking Analysis of Lie-berman-Warner
Next week, Senator Harry Reid is going to bring the Lieberman-Warner Coal-Subsidy Act to the Senate floor for debate and votes. Even after modification by Senator Boxer, Lieberman-Warner remains grossly inadequate in face of the challenges we face. Even so, the National Association of Manufacturers, the US Chamber of Commerce, and global warming deniers are […]
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · climate delayers · Congress · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · James Inhofe · lieberman-warner · politics
Coal IS Dirty!!!!!
May 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Coal is NOT Clean. Coal IS Dirty! Introducing the Clean Coal Body Slam. Kevin Grandia of DeSmogBlog has put together an amazing team with a clear (not clean) agenda: For a while now, whenever I mentioned the term “clean coal” people would roll their eyes and groan, “clean coal,” usually followed by a rolling of […]
Tags: climate change · coal · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · politics · pollution
Alaska as a State in Denial?
May 22nd, 2008 · 10 Comments
Forget Katrina and Louisiana (where there are many other man-made factors, such as bad river management/flood protection), Alaska is the state most affected by Global Warming. It is also on the front lines of continued Republican efforts to confront reality directly … and deny it! Several Republican members of the Alaska State Legislature drove through, […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · skeptic · truthiness
Energy Dumb House Action …
May 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Ranking up there with the Energy Dumb concept of a Gas Tax Holiday, the US House of Representatives passed (on a 324-84 vote) a bill to authorize the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and conspiring to set crude oil prices. The Gas Price Relief for Consumers Act seeks to apply […]
Tags: climate change · Congress · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics
Briefly on Boxer’s Brief
May 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Mea culpa … as I have not had time to fully digest this material, but Senator Barbara Boxer has released a summary of the Manager’s Amendment to the Lieberman-Warner Coal-Subsidy Act. In the cover letter, Senator Boxer promises many things, including that this will be “deficit neutral” (sadly, not ‘reduce the deficit’ or putting funds […]
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Orcas flock to hear McCain’s Global Warming speech
May 19th, 2008 · Comments Off on Orcas flock to hear McCain’s Global Warming speech
John McCain’s Global Warming speech last Monday had some unusual attendees in the audience. This video captures the swarming attendees, attracted to the event by the news that McCain was going to give real attention to and provide some leadership when it came to Global Warming.
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · john mccain · politics