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There are many good people who, with real passion and sincerity, support the Lieberman-Warner American CSA even while, in most cases, agreeing that it has serious problems, such as the 40% or so of pollution permits that will be given away over the next 25 years. They have made, in essence, a political calculation that […]

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The Maryland Commission on Climate Change reported out this Tuesday. The main recommendation:  reduce Maryland global warming pollution 90% by 2050.  “The climate crisis is real, and while it threatens our shorelines today, its causes and symptoms threaten life on our planet in the generations ahead unless we act,” Governor Martin O’Malley Note that O’Malley […]

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Well, of course, providing evidence of the Bush Administration being disconnected from reality is sort of like piling on 20 minutes after someone’s been tackled, but we’ll go ahead anyway.  When asked about the implications of the Lieberman-Warner CSA (with all its problems), the lead US representative at Bali, Harlan Watson showed he was on top of […]

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The Lieberman-Warner “Climate Security Act” (CSA) was passed out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday.  We (and I, strongly) have been told to shut up and celebrate. A Global Warming Bill is going to be debated on the Senate floor and, in any event, any faults don’t matter since Mr 26% will veto […]

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As it stands, reported out of the Senate Envronmental and Public Works (EPW) Committee, the Lieberman-Warner bill represents a Climate InSecurity Act or CISA.  Now, a core question: What would it take to move it from CISA to a true CSA (Climate Security Act)? For me, a key question is what would cause severe problems in […]

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Well, notice the sponsorship. That first one, Tides Foundation, seems to be getting involved with many really interesting activities. Story of Stuff looks to be a very interesting effort, a DVD that I’m waiting to see. In the interim, the web site and teaser videos are definitely worth some time.

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Barbara Boxer is leading a call for the Lieberman-Warner Climate InSecurity Act.  This bill has many challenges, but most serious — the one that would lead me to vote NO! — is the huge amount of permits to pollute given away for free. Can we say $Trillion+ with a Capital T?  Senator Clinton (to be […]

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Rising Tide, a group of Global Warming (and otherwise) activists,  created a fake “US-CAP” site (www.climateactionpartnership.org — since suspended) with a prominent posting of a spoof press release declaring that the consortium’s members had committed to a 90 percent reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In addition, the spoof release called for an immediate […]

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The UN has issue Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World.  Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging […]

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Sacremento Dem asked What is the biggest outrage of this Administration?  At the end of the diary, a list of truly “outrageous” acts.  Outrageous.But, perhaps, the most outrageous element was not in that list, as outrageous as every element listed was and is to consider. No, in the desire to reject everything from Bill Clinton, […]

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