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[Oil Change] Financial Crisis Undermines Climate Change Action: Yvo de Boer, who heads the Bonn-based UN Climate Change Secretariat, told a news conference: “The credit crisis can be used to make progress in a new direction, an opportunity for global green economic growth.”
[Climate Change Fraud news] Efforts on global warming chilled by economic woes: said Tom Williams, a spokesman for Duke Energy Corp., an electricity producer that has supported federal mandates on greenhouse gases. Duke is a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an association of businesses and nonprofit groups that has lobbied Congress to act.
[PA Pundits] No Finance Means Fewer Greenhouse Inventions: To cut emissions, billions need to be risked - largely by business - on projects exploring new technologies. To pick an obvious example: the Rudd Government’s climate change guru, Ross Garnaut, rests much of his plan to slash our emissions by 80 per cent on the invention of clean coal technology, which is yet to proved to work. Without it, we will have to scrap the power stations which are responsible for 70 per cent of our power, and which as the single biggest source of our greenhouse gases.
[Clean Earth News] Efforts on global warming chilled by economic woes: Under such a system, the government would establish a market for carbon dioxide by giving or selling credits to companies with operations that emit greenhouse gases. The companies can then choose whether to invest in technologies to reduce emissions to meet targets or instead buy credits from other companies who have already met them.
[Tahoe Collective] Climate Change vs. the Economy: That is the bill that made it to the Senate floor for debate after being repeatedly amended to make sure that, among other things, it didn’t cost industry too much, that it dealt with international energy imports, and that it established a commission to determine the structure for a greenhouse gas marketplace that couldn’t be manipulated. The issues involved in climate change legislation are myriad and complex, with competing interests championed by hosts of lobbyists.
[3News Business] Financial crisis crippling efforts to fight climate change: "Clearly it is somewhere down the totem pole given the economic realities we are facing," said Tom Williams, a spokesman for Duke Energy, an electricity producer that has supported federal mandates on greenhouse gases. Duke is a member of the US Climate Action Partnership, an association of businesses and nonprofit groups that has lobbied Congress to act.
[ghgblog.com - The Greenhouse Gas Blog] CLIMATE BILLS -RGGI & WESTERN CLIMATE INITIATIVE & VOLUNTARY STANDARDS: After the US elections in November the relationship between state-based US Climate Bills and the Kyoto Protocol, the global accord will be looked at, whether it is John McCain or Barack Obama, as both are committed to Climate Change legislative Initiatives. No doubt, seeing this the Europeans will want to talk to the US about harmony - harmonisation on many things will be on the agenda I suspect.
[Newshoggers.com] Economic Crisis Or Climate One, Must We Choose?: on greenhouse gases. Duke is a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an association of businesses and nonprofit groups that has lobbied Congress to act.
[startupnation Blog] Hey, Green Business, is regulation a good idea?: The EPA’s Climate Leaders challenges businesses to develop a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions inventory for their activities and to set aggressive, long-term emissions reduction goals. Compared to the expected rate of improvement in their industry sector, partners in Climate Leaders will prevent a total of 125 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions —
[Energy Tough Love Blog] John McCain’s Global Warming Policy - Well, he calls it Climate Change: John McCain Proposes A Cap-And-Trade System That Would Set Limits On Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Encouraging The Development Of Low-Cost Compliance Options. A climate cap-and-trade mechanism would set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and allow entities to buy and sell rights to emit, similar to the successful acid rain trading program of the early 1990s.
[Jennifer Marohasy] Aynsley Kellow on Popular Nonsense in Perth: Back on 26 April, he was enriching the ”˜Flannery - the Wrong Weather Maker’ thread with the claim that the ignorance of one poster was ”˜a great example of the problem of the thickness of the denialist cranium’ and describing others as ”˜denialist scum’, ”˜denialist vermin’ and ”˜old coots’. But Luke took the time to post a link to a paper in the ”˜Australian Meteorological Magazine’ (AMM) as a model of ”˜what serious rainfall analysis looks like.’
[Climate Resistance] 80% and the Climate Change Aristocracy: It is thought to contribute about one-fifth of the current enhancement in the greenhouse effect.’ This claim was cited to IPCC (1996b) The Science of Climate Change 1995. Summary for Policymakers, page 8.
[Cloud and Sunshine] Climate Change and India: A Holistic View: Here the answer is “Yes, we can.” The reason is that while weather consists of rapidly changing processes in the atmosphere, climate is a combination of several slowly evolving processes: Atmospheric, oceanic, biological, geological, geophysical and bio-geo-chemical. The climate system has its own internal dynamics and external forcings as well human-induced forcings.
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