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Road to Copenhagen Part: US Climate Legislation & Lobbyists

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy - By Jeff Smith - Nov. 22 (News Analysis) - Called the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Waxman-Markey bill was fought hard by the energy industry. According to a report by the Center for Public Integrity, “More than 460 new businesses and interest groups jumped into lobbying Congress on global warming in the weeks before the House neared its historic vote on climate change legislation.” You can see from the chart above that there was a spike in the amount of lobbying just prior to the bill’s passing.

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Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Keith Johnson - Nov. 21 (News Analysis) - The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3,000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week is one of professional backbiting and questionable scientific practices. It could undermine the idea that the science of man-made global warming is entirely settled just weeks before a crucial climate-change summit.

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"Big Bang" experiment advancing fast

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Jonathon Lynn - Nov. 21 (Special Report) - After a year's delay, scientists at the world's biggest accelerator have restarted an experiment to recreate "Big Bang" conditions that had sparked suggestions the earth would be sucked in by millions of black holes.

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20 Weird, Crazy Ideas for Helping the Earth | Environment

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By WebEcoist. - Nov. 21 (Editorial) - Global warming. Food shortages and water scarcity Dennis Baker penticton bc canada V2A6Z3 dennisbaker2003@hotmail.com RE : The solution to climate change. ( human excrement + nuclear waste = hydrogen ) The USA discharges Trillions of tons of sewage annually, sufficient quantity to sustain electrical generation requirements of the USA. Redirecting existing sewage systems to containment facilities would be a considerable infrastructure modification project. It is the intense radiation that causes the conversion of organic material into hydrogen, therefore what some would consider the most dangerous waste because of its radiation would be the best for this utilization. I believe the combination of clean water and clean air, will increase the life expectance of humans. yours sincerely Dennis Baker

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The New Arms Race

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - America will not win the arms race of the 21st century with rockets, but with robust investment in and support of U.S.-based green technology. While Congress dawdles, China is clobbering us.

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Data breach at climate research center in U.K

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Juliet Eilperin - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Split Over Donohue’s Climate Policy

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Nov. 19 (Special Report) - BACK in the 1990s when Thomas J. Donohue was president of the American Trucking Associations, a subordinate raised a question at a staff meeting. Some of the association’s members, the aide said, wondered whether it was really necessary for the group’s president to fly on a private jet.

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Bats: The New Canary In The Coal Mine?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Kerry Trueman - Nov. 19 (News Analysis) - At least 1 million bats in the past three years have been wiped out by a puzzling, widespread disease dubbed "white-nose syndrome" in what preeminent US scientists are calling the most precipitous decline of North American wildlife in human history. If it isn't slowed or stopped, they believe bats will continue disappearing from the landscape in huge numbers and that entire species could become extinct within a decade.

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Are the Earth's Oceans Hitting Their Carbon Cap?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Bryan Walsh - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Like the vast forests of the world, which continually suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen, the planet's oceans serve as vital carbon sinks. Last year the oceans absorbed as much as 2.3 billion tons of carbon, or about one-fourth of all manmade carbon emissions. Without the action of the oceans, the CO2 we emit into the atmosphere would have flame-broiled the planet by now.

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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Climate

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

WhoRunsGov.com - Nov. 19 (Interview) - The Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the country's most influential environmental groups, has sent at least a half-dozen former employees into prime government positions tasked with writing U.S. climate and energy policies.

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Vehicle telemetry: Calling all cars

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Nov. 19 (Special Report) - One way or another, a quarter of the world’s new cars will be equipped with some form of remote monitoring and control system by 2016, predicts Egil Juliussen, an analyst with iSuppli, a Californian company that monitors technology trends. The result will be cars that are not only impossible to steal, but can also call the emergency services if the airbags go off in an accident, make themselves more comfortable to drive before their owners get in, and even admit an owner who has mislaid his keys. (Every month more than 60,000 OnStar subscribers ask for the doors of their cars to be unlocked remotely, because they have locked themselves out.)

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Tax credits eyed for solar energy firms amid Obama’s push for ‘green jobs’

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Ben Geman - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Solar energy companies are lobbying for new tax credits for domestic manufacturers that would come on top of subsidies included in the $787 billion stimulus package enacted earlier this year. Solar energy companies are lobbying for new tax credits for domestic manufacturers that would come on top of subsidies included in the $787 billion stimulus package enacted earlier this year.

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A case for branding the environment

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Ghanaian Chronicle - By William Abaidoo - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - Choosing a brand name for a product is important from a promotional perspective because brand names communicate product concepts and help position the product in the mind of customers. Names like Key (soap) Blue band (margarine), Omo (washing powder) Ideal (milk) ,Arid (antiperspirant deodorant) and spic and span (floor cleaner) all clearly communicate the benefits of using these products

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Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring