Cap and Trade vs Carbon Tax

Scott Edward Anderson’s blog speaks to our current climate change legislation debate.
http://greenskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/05/agree-to-disagree-cap-and-trade-vs.html

Bound to Burn

An interesting article by Peter Huber of the Manhattan Institute on carbon, the developing world, and land use change.
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_carbon.html

American Clean Energy and Security Act

Statement of Lisa P. Jackson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Hearing on American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
(Washington, D.C. – April 22, 2009) Chairman Waxman, Chairman-Emeritus Dingell, Ranking Minority Member Barton, and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify about the draft American Clean [...]

A Greenpeace Scientist on Forest Carbon Offsets

From the Macau Times:
Including forest protection measures in carbon markets would cause carbon prices to crash, and could undo efforts to rein in global warming, according to a Greenpeace report released earlier in the week.
Prices in a future carbon market would plummet by 75 percent, making it cheaper for industries in rich nations to buy [...]

Less Carbon, More Jobs

The Environmental Defense Fund has created this website that creates a ‘jobs’ argument for federal climate change legislation.
http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=33427

Democrats Set Principles to Guide Climate Change Bill

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday unveiled a set of principles that will guide their efforts to craft legislation aimed at slowing global warming, firing an opening salvo in what is likely to be one of the year’s central legislative debates.
The document released [...]

Corn, Geese, and Flight 1549

Written by Dennis Avery
January 21, 2009
Did global warming dump U.S. Airways flight 1549 into the Hudson River by attracting more geese to New York airports? Time Magazine says yes. Time notes a four-fold increase in airplane bird strikes since 1990, and blames global warming and destruction of wild bird habitat for the increased collisions.
Time reached [...]

Obama Acts on Fuel Efficiency, Global Warming

Normally I would not spend time to point out what the major new services are reporting, but let’s give the new President some attention.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/26/news/economy/obama_energy/index.htm?postversion=2009012613

Global Warming and the Internet

Here is an article on a trend in use of the Internet and information on global warming….I’m not sure I see it the way the author does….but there are some interesting observations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/a-troubling-trend-in-glob_b_158288.html

Obama Climate Change Agenda

An interesting short article on the Sierra Club’s list of suggested day one environmental actions by the new administration.
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE50C5RN20090113