The world’s largest coal exporter and per capita emitter of greenhouse gases has just joined the EU, New Zealand, California and the the RGGI states in passing into law legislation that puts a price on carbon emissions. Australian prime ministers have been toppled for a decade in attempting the feat … [continued]
I am a huge fan of Google. And the company has done far more than any other company to help solve the problems of climate change by investing in game-changing renewable innovation, and even providing an education on climate change, directly. However, it’s core mission – finding stuff for you – … [continued]
Parents: you might want to check what kind of polluter-paid propaganda your kids are being exposed to in school, as part of their science curriculum. The Chamber of Commerce has now joined Exxon itself in supplying “Energy” education textbooks for middle school children. The Chamber is distributing a teaching guide … [continued]
For the last 20 years, Republican Senators have been held to single standard of climate denial by the fossil industry which sends them there. But Republican Governors were left alone. [social_buttons] Thus California’s Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been synonymous with active support for clean energy. Likewise, Florida’s Republican Governor … [continued]
“It’s not too late; we can minimize the alteration, or we can just plow on as usual … and if we plow on as usual … it could be very, very bad.” So says Nobel Prizewinner for Physics, Steven Chu, who is now Energy Secretary of the Obama administration Department … [continued]
China has just completed its first ever study of environmental pollution. Not surprisingly, the news is terrible. But the optimistic and frank tone is encouraging. And strangely reminiscent… “Although the news is bad, we should not lose confidence in our ability to bring pollution under control” says Ma Jun, the … [continued]
A new way to use natural gas could cut its carbon dioxide output to zero, making it competitive with solar or wind farms. [social_buttons] MIT Postdoctoral associate Thomas Adams and Chemical Engineering Professor Paul I. Barton have proposed a system which produces power from natural gas without burning it, and … [continued]
The Obama administration is moving ahead with not one, but three EPA rules that will start to reduce our use of coal, (by far the worst emitter of greenhouse gases in the nation) to move the nation towards a cleaner, safer, healthier energy future, despite misuse of the Senate filibuster by Republicans who are paid to support coal.
Surprisingly, in climate policy discourse, the cost/benefit analysis of the health benefits has not been a consideration – because the focus has been on just minimizing the cost of the transition to renewable energy.
If the USA was smart, we would make a massive switch to renewable energy now, while we still can. By 2012 we could be out of luck.
