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[Evergreen Politics] Inslee, Smith and Larsen introduce "New Apollo" clean energy legislation: Global Warming and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: New Apollo enacts a proposal similar to the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act by capping our emissions of greenhouse gases while allowing companies to purchase and trade credits among themselves to ensure the most cost-effective reductions, and funding research to help industries make the shift to cleaner operations. The bill targets one of the biggest greenhouse-gas offenders -- coal -- by providing $7 billion in loan guarantees for the development of clean coal power plants.

[Crumb Trail] Still Raining: "We did the simulation on a peat bog in Moray in northeast Scotland, an area we know was affected by the volcanic fallout from the Laki eruption," adds Gauci, "and found that the reduced methane emission lasts several years beyond the end of the acid rain. Our calculations show that the emissions would take many years to recover--far longer than volcanoes are currently understood to impact on the atmosphere."

[Socialgoals.com] Social Policy Bonds blog: Emissions are not climate change: It is in short an indirect and tenuous way of cutting back one possible driver of climate change. If imposed in a way that will have any effect on emissions at all, it will be expensive, divisive and almost certainly ineffectual if its real goal is actually to mitigate climate change.

[Io.com] Viridian Blog: Two questions arise: what will it cost, and how can I arrange it? Nicola Steen, vice-president for transactions at www.CO2e.com, the emissions trading arm of Cantor Fitzgerald and one of the leading players in the emerging emissions market, says trading is mainly driven by companies buying emission entitlements in anticipation of coming regulation. But she also sees the early stages of a retail market developing.

 [Scienceblog.com] Science Blog -- NCAR Climate Model Projections For 21st Century ...: BOULDER--Carbon dioxide emissions over the next century could increase wintertime precipitation in the U.S. Southwest and Great Plains by 40% as global average temperature rises 3 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), according to latest results from a new climate system model developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research by NCAR, university, and other laboratory scientists. Reducing the buildup of carbon dioxide concentrations over the next century by one half largely dries up the extra rain and snow and slows the global temperature rise to 2 degrees F (1.5 degrees C). The model results were announced this week in Atlanta.

[Webapp.utexas.edu] Sarkar Lab WebLog: Pacala and Socolow show how each of the 15 options they identified could prevent 1 billion tons a year worth of carbon emissions by 2054. To illustrate their idea, the researchers created a graph that divides the problem into seven 1 billion-ton-per-year "wedges." In their paper and 51 pages of supplementary online material, they identify opportunities and difficulties associated with each option and compare alternative combinations of seven wedges.

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