Message to message, my inbox demonstrates a split mentality, item A frequently seeming to be from a different world than item B. My mailbox is confused. Let’s take e-mails from two warriors against Global Warming: Senator Barbara Boxer sharing with me magnificent news about huge progress on the Global Warming front. Bill McKibben letting me know that […]
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Schizophrenia in my inbox … Global Warming on the mind
December 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on Schizophrenia in my inbox … Global Warming on the mind
Tags: Bill McKibben · climate change · Global Warming · lieberman-warner · politics · Uncategorized
Key Dynamics to consider Lieberman-Warner and D yes votes from Senate EPW
December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on Key Dynamics to consider Lieberman-Warner and D yes votes from Senate EPW
On a 12-8 vote, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee passed out the Lieberman-Warner “American Climate Security Act”. Such stalwarts of environmental issues as Senators Barbara Boxer and Bernie Sanders voted for sending this bill out of committee and praised it (even strongly). Yet, there are those, including this author, who have serious issues […]
Tags: Congress · Energy · Global Warming · lieberman-warner
Thoughts on ASCA’s compromises
December 7th, 2007 · Comments Off on Thoughts on ASCA’s compromises
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 […]
Tags: Congress · Global Warming · lieberman-warner · politics · pollution
What would it take to make CISA a CSA?
December 6th, 2007 · Comments Off on What would it take to make CISA a CSA?
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 […]
Tags: cap and trade · carbon dioxide · Congress · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · lieberman-warner
Hillary stands up for the Globe: Who will join her?
December 4th, 2007 · Comments Off on Hillary stands up for the Globe: Who will join her?
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 […]
Tags: emissions · Global Warming · government energy policy · lieberman-warner · politics
Whose Environment is Environmental Defense Defending?
November 16th, 2007 · 4 Comments
The saga continues. As it stands now, the Liberman-Warner Climate Security Act provides a secure financial environment for historic polluters and secures little else. It has inadequate targets to prevent catastrophic climate change. It hands away $100s of billions, impoverishing the average American for the favor of giving handouts to polluters. And, in giving away […]
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Sanders on Lieberman-Warner
November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Sanders on Lieberman-Warner
Senator Sanders has provided a strong statement about Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act’s lack of security for the climate.
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Lieberman-Warner … The problems mount, don’t disappear
November 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Lieberman-Warner … The problems mount, don’t disappear
Okay, pessimistic-optimist, realist-idealist are constantly at play in my personal ying-yang struggle. Of course, one shouldn’t be surprised at this, but horse-trading is making Lieberman-Warner weaker as it moves along, not stronger. David Roberts, at Grist, has an important post, Permits for Me but Not for You. Senators Baucus and Warner have secured roughly $4 […]
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Will Environmental Defense Defend the Environment?
November 7th, 2007 · Comments Off on Will Environmental Defense Defend the Environment?
Let us be clear, upfront, the current Lieberman-Warner bill is inadequate and, well, potentially worse than inadequate. If passed, as is, it will (without question) fall short of the measures required to deal with Global Warming, it will give away $100s billions to polluters without requirements to use those funds to clean up their acts […]
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Is Lieberman changing his tune on pollution credit give-away?
September 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Is Lieberman changing his tune on pollution credit give-away?
Joe Lieberman has become persona non-grata for many liberal, even his name might drive some to hypertension. For many, it is a name all too often connected with mistaken paths, whether on Iraq or Iraq or Habeas Corpus or … Is this name about to take a shift and take a leading position in the US Senate on […]
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